In a World Divided, I Want To Be Love

In my book, Holy Spirit Rising: The Vital Return of Our Divine Mother for the Healing of Our Planet, I share a spiritual awakening sparked in a friend of mine, “Tess," while standing beside her mother’s hospital deathbed. Her mother appeared to be unconscious as she lay there unresponsive, and Tess was at a loss, not knowing what to do. She turned on the television beside the bed to bring some sound into the dead quiet of the room. The first thing that came up was the Oprah Show, where Oprah interviewed a guest. This did not interest Tess, so she scowled through station after station. However, she did not come across anything that held her interest or that she could even concentrate on at this time. Her scrolling came full circle and landed her once again on the Oprah Show. Tess was about to turn the television off when the question she heard Oprah ask the guest made her freeze in her tracks. Oprah said, “When a person is on their deathbed, no matter race, gender, no matter if they are rich or poor—what is the number one thing people long to know?” Tess listened. The guest answered, “The number one thing people want to know before they die is, "Was I loved, and did I love well?” Tess stood there for a moment. She then turned off the television and turned to her mother, taking her hand in hers. My friend then leaned over her mother and told her with all her heart how very deeply she loved her and how incredibly loved she had felt by her, and as she finished, she felt her mother gently squeeze her hands twice.

I am so deeply moved by this story, I will never forget it. If love is what matters most in the end, what does that tell us about how we want to live our lives now? We have been given the secret to what we want to prioritize for a life well-lived. While we may forgive ourselves for past mistakes made out of ignorance, it is crucial to learn from them and apply this newfound wisdom from this day forward to improve the quality of our lives immeasurably. It doesn’t guarantee that it will always be smooth sailing; life tends to present challenges. Becoming more conscious and heart-centered does, however, put us on track to a more profoundly satisfying and meaningful life. Perceiving this started a long road of transformation for me.

Considering all the division and distractions happening in the world right now, which are meant to keep us apart, understanding the power of love is more important than ever. People suffer without enough love. Therefore, I want to be Love; I want to embody it and share it, positively impacting others' lives. I've never regretted loving too much. When someone leaves this world, we tend to wish we had spent more time with them and expressed our love for them even more. If we love someone who proves themself unworthy, that's another story, we are not in the wrong to move on. But we don’t want to rush through life, forgetting to let those we love know what they mean to us, and how incredibly loved they are.

Once our hearts are open, we can extend kindness to others, including our brothers and sisters who are strangers to us. The capacity to feel love and compassion for others has always been associated with higher wisdom. So, let's step up to embrace it. When discussing varying political opinions, for example, if each party listened to understand rather than to formulate their comeback, solutions could be found together.

And little things matter. If I am impatient with the employee at the store, I will always wonder how much my rudeness hurt them. What else might be going on in their lives? Look into people’s eyes. Connect to them. How could demonstrating warmth and compassion during a stressful situation help this person feel valued and cared for? Showing kindness or gratitude can uplift and positively change the tone of someone’s day. Doing this, coming from a genuine place, tends to positively touch our spirit as well. Snippiness or unkind remarks leave a little wound in people’s hearts, and all these things accumulate. Showing kindness and treating that person as valued and respected instead can lift their self-worth and help them heal their wounds, and in doing so, mysteriously, we heal ours.

Too many people spend an exorbitant amount of energy doing the opposite on the internet and in their lives. In many ancient traditions, it is known that when we harm others, our soul is even more adversely impacted than theirs. Pieces can actually start going missing. So, it keeps coming back to this: to improve the quality of our and everyone’s lives, we must open our hearts. The decision to do so or not will be our own. It’s our journey. After much contemplation, my conclusion is this: in a world that frequently places too much value on things that matter the least at the end...I choose to be Love.

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Sylvia Binsfeld is a filmmaker, the founder of the Conscious Media Movement, and author of Holy Spirit Rising: The Vital Return of Our Divine Mother for the Healing of Our Planet.

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