A while back I was encouraged to let my heart go out into the ether when I was lying in bed ready for sleep. When I did that I felt my heart was showered with love. I might have spoken about this before but later I realised that the love I felt could also be described as potential.

A few years back, I am not sure if I wrote about it or not, I was thinking of the universe as pure potential. It is potentially anything. It is potentially everything and so forth. So you have all of this energy, some energy is slow and some is fast, it is any potential speed to keep this logic going.

So recently I was like when you meet someone and fall in love for example it is the potential that is the love but also the potential for anything. You can’t box potential in the category of love because it can take on any form or any form or be formless. That is how love can also be a tragedy depending on how it manifests.

So all of that potential raining down from the solar system, from deep space, from who knows where is coaxing everything into being or non being. Yet the feeling is at least as I can feel it, loving. Then you could say we always want the best for ourselves and others or on the other hand want the worst. Each option is a way of using potential.

Love can be twisted, it can be the most painful experience. So don’t feel love is going to set you free, it potentially can though. You reap what you sow. I guess the fascination between the universe being a loving entity or a cruel monster depends on how you understand potential. What potential can you see or feel? Do you feel you still have the potential to love yourself, your family and your peers?

To quote Brother Ali, “can I turn these broken hearts to gold?” Is that God’s job? Or is it yours? In Taoism it is your job. Then you connect the dots and the love is raining down from everywhere. The love, the potential. It has no boundaries.