“Silence is the language of God’s Infinite Being.  All else is poor translation.” 
Rumi

Imagine for a moment dropping all your hopes for Love and what it will give you.  Clearly, anything we hope for isn’t here presently.  Where does that leave us?  Fixated on an imagined future where we’re finally fulfilled.  Consequently, we overlook what’s here.  We live in denial of our present experience, of Reality.

Chasing after or trying to negotiate Love, we never know Love.  We’ve innocently swallowed ideas that we can find and keep Love, we need to be deserving of Love, that the words “till death do us part” will make us secure, that Love can be nailed down with mutually agreed upon expectations.  Let’s take Love out of the box we’ve learned to put it in.

Here’s a contemplation for the Heart.  It’s not a theory, not something for the mind to figure out.  Thoughts cannot understand.  Fortunately, another intelligence can guide us.

It means, however, abandoning all hope for a better future – all beliefs you’re certain are right, correct and true.  It will mean emptying yourself of everything you think you are – you can have all that stuff back if you like.  For now though, give Love a chance.  Are you willing?

Get comfy.  Let your mind and body settle.
Now, slowly begin to empty yourself….of opinions….fears…. judgments….assumptions………

Empty yourself….of past experiences….memories….future projections….hopes…………..

Empty yourself….of even the desire for peace….understanding….truth….love….enlightenment…………..

Just let it all go for now.
Keep subtracting….empty yourself of concerns for reputation….money…..to-do lists….plans…………..

Empty yourself….of your name…..and all other identifiers…..your reputation…………………

Empty empty empty…………..enter silence………….

None of this is original to you. It’s all been added on.  Can you let it all go, let it be?  Don’t rush, please.
Once you are simply here, empty of those conventional reference points, ask yourself…………….

“What’s left that cannot be taken away? What remains that cannot leave me?”

Don’t try to imagine what’s left without ideas about yourself, others, the world.  Just notice what is here….without trying to figure it out.  What’s here that cannot leave you?   Nothing that’s here one minute and gone the next can ever give you the Love you yearn for.  Never ever.  Stay with the inquiry.

Don’t believe emptiness is scary or boring or anything else the mind makes up….stay with the inquiry.

Knowing Love, not as a feeling or concept, is to know the unsayable, simple truth your original nature, call it whatever you like.  All else is added.  Another word for this Aware-Presence is Love.  Remember yourself as Love.

Given the force of habit and power of conventional beliefs, it’s not always easy loving life as it is, for that’s what Love does.  That’s why we empty every day, again and again.  Otherwise, we suffocate the spontaneous aliveness that is our natural way.

You are the sky, indivisible, eternal, empty and full, in which everything appears without leaving a ripple.  What is here that cannot ever leave you?  There is nothing more Real than this.