18 Photos Full of Love And Its Many Beautiful Forms.

Throughout the ages many have sought or assumed an afterlife of perfection and termed this reality a form of heaven. Individuals of every period have been exploring the meaning and purpose of life hoping this illumination will release them from the difficulties seemingly encountered here. Some civilizations have even come forth in an attempt to perfect their existence to reach this type of destiny. Yet, all the while we have chased after an external heaven or sense of personal redemption; we have forgotten the truth within our being.

A woman says goodbye to her friend.

Heaven has never been a place or condition outside us. In the continuous pursuit to reach some glorious attainment, we miss the glory and beauty of the moment. This present moment has always been the destiny and reward for a life lived in love. Every Master Teacher of any age or civilization spoke this truth.

John F. Kennedy Jr. salutes the coffin at his father’s funeral.

Still, for the limited human, the reality of such a simple possibility is often elusive and confusing.

 

“Caution: These photos might cause you to fall in love with humanity again. “

In our ever evolving journey we have been in a game of separation. This illusion has its premise in that we can disconnect our consciousness from the Source of life.

A South Korean man says a tearful goodbye to his North Korean brother after a temporary government-allowed reunion.

 Although we assume this possibility to make it work, we can never be separate from creation since it exists everywhere around and in us. We constantly create our reality with the power of our thoughts and feelings according to where we focus our attention.

Photographer Angelo Merendino and his wife, Jen, shave her head after she undergoes treatment for cancer.

.We draw the wondrous loving qualities to us by our attention and contemplation upon our higher nature and Higher Self. Our true understanding of this limitless universal energy is through our expression and use of these qualities. To focus on love without using love is only a partial experience of life. To focus and allow love in every moment is to know life as an unlimited experience. .

Two Maoris greet each other by pressing their noses together.

A couple kisses in a photo booth in 1953.

Gorete Borges Teodoro and her daughter, Renata Teodoro, hold hands at the border fence in Nogales, Arizona in 2013. Gorete was deported to Mexico six years prior.

A boy plays violin at the funeral of the teacher who taught him to play.

A couple kisses after being married during a monsoon in Manila.

 It is time for those that love to help those that seek love. This service to life is the cornerstone of all existence. We simply turn to life through our Higher Self and accept the light and love that we already are. In return for this wonderful energy, we share it unceasingly to those around us. We expand according to our desire and willingness and the pace is ours to decide. The quicker we accept love however, the faster we experience it in our world.

A woman and her three-year-old daughter embrace. Both were attacked with acid by their husband/father.

A boy is comforted as his brother leaves for his first day of school.

A father and son hold hands at different stages of life.

A boy hugs his sister after rescuing her from the rubble of their home in Syria.

A young couple embraces at a music festival.

Two siblings embrace in southern Sudan, 1998.

A couple stands in the rubble of their home after a tornado hit Moore, Oklahoma in 2013.

Credits:Harold W. Becker