In my youth, and I think this is true for many people, love has been a struggle.
Most young people think they know what love is, when they fall in love. The greater their certainty, the greater the emotional damage of the eventual breakup.
I say “damage” but in fact, it’s only an illusion, as most people realize later on in life. The illusion serves to teach a memorable lesson, and exists for the evolvement of the person.
But what is “true love” exactly?
And why are we talking about love in a blog that is supposed to be about one’s ideal career?
As Tina Turner would say, “What’s love got to do with it?!”
Well, it turns out that True Love flows from True Self. In fact, True Love is the same as True Self Love.
In other words, when you truly love your Self, you are capable of unconditional love, and that’s when true love occurs.
Misunderstanding about the connection between True Self and True Love leads many single people to search for a lover on dating sites or in places where they expect (hope?) to find a soul mate.
Yet, if you are not connected to your Self, such searches won’t likely be fruitful. Even if you DID find “Mr Right” or “Miss Right”, you would not have much to give, since we can only give what we are.
My point is that when you connect to your true Self, you not only empower yourself to create an ideal career, but you also create all the right conditions for receiving your soul mate into your life.
On the other hand, a person who identifies with her ego and is not connected to her true self, is just another “body” seeking to attract the attention of another “body” so they can both have fun for a while. Eventually, the relationship cannot last because it is not based on the communion of two true selves (or two souls). Failure to learn this lesson, will lead such persons to repeat the mistake over and over again, but with different “bodies.”
It’s the same situation for those who merely have a “job” (where their body resides 9 to 5, five days a week) vs those who have found their ideal career (which is beyond time and space).
Indeed, the ideal career is nothing but a conduit through which the creative Higher Self expresses itself. This Higher Self is not encased or imprisoned by any corporate employment system because it operates at a higher level, above the ego.
In other words, true love is like the ideal career, in that both are spiritual phenomena. And to be on this spiritual path requires a great deal of sensitivity on the part of the seeker, whether he/she is seeking true love or an ideal career.
She will find true love only when she is true to herself. Surprisingly, when she finds her true self, she finds the only Prize in life worth seeking.
