My fave spiritual authors endorse LOVE as the solution to the problems of the universe. The gospels preach the message of love. Marianne Williamson, as introduced by a close friend in the 90s, has been endorsing love for more than 20 years. This failed to get her elected in the US congress.

Gill Edwards, Wayne Dyer, Rabbi Darfour, even Candace Pert are all dead. Michael Tamura, Esther Hicks, Matt Kahn etc continue to speak messages of love. Even Dr Christine Page makes love a requirement for manifesting your desires.

Some messages are downright mushy. Some are sentimental. Others are romantic. Some make me feel they don’t know what I am going through.

Some make the split between my Inner Child and my Higher Self almost unbearable.

Here comes Martha Beck with a practical insight: “If someone is hurting you, the first step is to create enough distance to feel safe. The time to love a burglar in the kitchen is when she is in prison, not when she is in the kitchen.”

Funny that Beck identified the burglar as a “she”.

Ultimately, I would rather go to Sylvia Boorstein who wrote:
“Sweetheart, you are in pain. Take a breath. Let’s pay attention to what is happening. Then we will figure out what to do next.”