Heart Song

“I LOVE YOU, my Dear Beloved Reader. This may seem an odd way to begin. But it is true. And ever since my Awakening, I can only speak the truth. You could say this is a love letter directly to you, My Beloved. When I say I love you, you must know the love I speak of. This love has no conditions. It is incapable of discriminating or judging. It knows no gender, no age, no race. It sees neither beauty nor ugliness, but only your absolute holy perfection. It does not care what you have done or what you will do, but only what you are. And you are this same perfect love I feel right now as I write this love letter to you, My Beloved. This love I speak of is very simple. It knows only love. And it knows love completely.
Simple as it is, this love is the most powerful force in the universe. It heals the sick and brings the spiritually dead back to life. Unlike everything we perceive in this world, love is unchanging, limitless, infinite and eternal. And this is the love I feel for you. By my loving you in this way, you are free to feel this unconditional love for yourself. And this is how the world is healed.
You may wonder how I can love you when I don’t even know you. And that would be true – except that I do know you. I know you intimately. I know you as well as I know my own self. I know every secret, fear, doubt and judgment you are now holding in your heart. And still I love you utterly, completely and unconditionally. You see, you and I are not unalike. We are not strangers: far from it. If you look deep into your heart you will find that we share the same heart, My Beloved. We are One. I know you may find this hard to believe now. But before you finish this book, you will discover it is true. There is only One Heart. It is not yours personally. Nor is it mine. It is one shared Heart. One Love. And it sings One Heart Song.
It is so glorious. It is singing right now in these pages. It is traveling to you through these words. This book is much more than paper and ink. It is more than words, sentences and paragraphs. You might say this book itself is love. Right now you are holding love in your hands. Each word is love. The paper and ink are infused with love. Each word carries the magical perfume of love. Read deeply. Let the words wash over you, removing all doubts and fears, revealing the infinite and eternal love that is right now humming in your breast and bringing life to every cell. This love is the most powerful force in the universe. It is infinite. It is eternal. And it is right here in this book, singing in the spaces between each word, each sentence, each paragraph. Can you hear it? It is your Heart Song. And that is why right now it is speaking to you. It is traveling to you through these very words.
You might, for just a moment, stop reading now and simply hold this up to your heart. Close your eyes. Now listen. Can you hear your Heart Song? It is the same as mine. This is a Song we all share. There is only one Heart Song. Listen. Feel it reverberate in your Heart. Please know that it has always been here. It was here in your mother’s womb, and even before that. This Song we share is older than time itself. It is more vast than space. Listen. Can you hear it? It may now sound like only the faintest whisper. But trust me, My Love, it is louder than all sounds combined. For in every molecule that has ever existed, this same Heart Song is singing. Listen. I know you can hear it if you truly listen.
You may experience it as an expanding in your chest, a tingling, an excitement in your body’s cells. You might even hear a sound, but more likely it will be a feeling. And this feeling is universal. There is no human who has not felt this Song of the Heart. And this Heart Song, this love, is Enlightenment. It is God. For so long, humans have searched for Enlightenment. For so long we have longed to experience God. And here all along, singing in our very own Heart, was everything we have ever searched for.
For you see, Beloved, it is the very same love that you have felt. The same love that you have touched that is not only the path to God, to Enlightenment, but God Itself. It is the map, the journey and the completion of the journey. It is the beginning, the middle and the end all rolled into one. And never, not for one blessed instant, have you ever been apart from it. Amazing, isn’t it? What you have searched for in vain, lifetime after lifetime, was always as close as that familiar tug on your heartstrings when you gazed into the eyes of a baby, cried during a romantic movie, or sank into the deep kiss of your Beloved for the very first time. Yes, right here all this time was God. You have never for a moment not been Enlightened. You just didn’t know. You were not aware. You forgot. You thought love was something else. Yes, it felt good. Sometimes you chased it, craved it, longed for it. But you never really understood the profound nature of what love really is. You thought it was something precious, limited, in short supply. You thought only the very lucky or beautiful experienced it. But this cannot be so, Beloved. For right now already your heart is beginning to sing, beginning to remember. What you are remembering is who you are. For you yourself are love. And not just the limited thing you had thought was love. You are Real Love. You are Divine Love, infinite and eternal. Nothing can harm or lessen this love even a micro-millimeter. It is permanent and unchanging.
It may be surprising to learn, with all these stories of divorce and perhaps your own experience, but love never changes. It is impossible to lose it. It is impossible to have less or more love. It is impossible for it to fade. You only believe or experience this because you don’t yet understand what love is or what you are. As I have said, love is infinite and eternal. And this bears repeating until you understand. There is no place that love is not. And some say, and this is what I experience: only love is real. In all of this incredible world filled with seeming variety – war and peace, wealth and poverty, good and bad, beauty and ugliness – all that actually exists is love. And that is the reason why I say that I love you. For nothing else that I say can be true. I call you my Dearest Love because you are that to me. Even now I see you as you read these lines. And not only that: I feel you right here in my own Heart, this Heart that holds the entire world within it, this same Heart that has never known anything but love. And so when I say that I love you, this is the truest thing I can ever say. And perhaps someday or even right now, this very moment, you can say this too. You can feel this One Heart beating in your own chest. You can feel it resonating in this enormous, infinite field of love. Can you feel it right now?
If not now, do not worry. It will come. It must, because trust me, My Dearest One, it is right here. Even now, in the midst of your suffering, your sorrow, your dark night, this flame of love is burning brightly. If you can sense just a spark of it, just one glowing ember, do not worry. Let this spark grow. Let this ember glow brighter. Let a small blaze begin. And let this blaze grow and continue growing until you feel a mighty fire of love. And let this Heart Fire burn away all the sorrow, suffering and pain of this imagined life. For I tell you that no matter what you have experienced so far in your life, only love is real. Let me say that again. Only Love Is Real.”
~ Peter Cutler https://www.facebook.com/FallingInLoveWithLove?ref=br_rs, The Zen of Love – Discover Your Own Awakened Heart
Peter fully awakened when he was only twenty-two years old. After ten days living in this awakened consciousness, he promptly fell back into the dream of separation. This began a forty-year spiritual search that finally flowered as the lasting state of awakened consciousness it is today. The Zen of Love is a love letter that awakens the infinite unconditional love that lies deep within your heart. It will heal and transform all your relationships, especially the one you have with yourself.