Words of Power: Love IS Intelligence

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Love IS Intelligence

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Love IS intelligence. Intelligence IS love. They are one. This is the truth of human existence.

There can be knowledge and intellect without love, but no intelligence without love. Likewise, there can be passion and attachment without love, but no love without intelligence.

Whatever is not loving is not intelligent, whatever is not intelligent is not love. They are divine, this is divine, and all life (animal, plant, mineral) is the expression of the divine.

The divine NEEDS to be recognized, and creation is the mirror in which it recognizes itself. Ignorance and suffering are the reality of the mirror-making process.

In the end, in this divine self-recognition of the whole in the particular and the particular in the whole, ignorance and suffering are transformed.

But just as human is made in the image of the divine, so to must human recreate that mirror-making process, each of us in our own lives, in our own ways, on our own paths.

-- Richard Power

Power's eighth book, Humanifesto: A Guide to Primal Reality in an Era of Global Peril , is available now in soft cover and Kindle versions, from Amazon and elsewhere.

About Richard Power

Richard Power is a writer, speaker and yoga teacher. He offers workshops, classes and private instruction in yoga and meditation. He is the author of 14 books, most important are Wyrds of Power: New Languagee for A New Reality (2017), I, the Dragon: Chronicles of An Epic Life Among the Humans (2018), and Secret Engine of the World: Further Notes on Primal Reality, Gaian Politics & the Arc of Human Evolution (2021). For more information on all of Power's other books, visit his author's page on Amazon.com.

For much of his life, Power worked in the fields of security and intelligence. He delivered briefings and led training in forty countries, and was an adviser to governments and corporations. His views have been featured in interviews on CNN, PBS, NPR and the BBC, and quoted in mainstream news media, including Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Reuters and Associated Press.

This blog explores new language for the truths of the ancient future, and reflects insights into Vajrayana Buddha Dharma, Kashmir Shiva-Sakti philosophy, Hatha and Tantra Yoga, the Shamanic path, and other aspects of the world's collective mystical heritage. It also offers commentary on art, music, literature, human rights, sustainability, independent journalism, economic justice and the Climate Crisis.