The power of love

We’re all here together in this Earth School learning, doing the best we can, making mistakes, picking ourselves back up. The soothing balm that keeps us going is often another’s kindness, caring, connection and love. The power of love is truly transformational.

Love and connection are some of our deepest human needs, but we don’t just need to receive love – we also need to give it. Listen as Sage Robbins talks with Mary B. about the essence of love, coming into awareness of her own divine energy and finding her identity not only as a mother, but as a student of our Earth School. Experience the journey that Mary B. and Sage took to motherhood, filled with excitement and challenge, awe and wonder, and deep gratitude for the divine energies that guided them both to sponsor life.

Love is universal

Mothers are one example of unconditional love, but they’re far from the only people capable of this amazing quality. Love is universal and has many faces. If you think of any great mother, real or archetypal, they have a capacity to love unconditionally – to accept, to allow, to give, to understand, to listen, to nurture. A mother’s love brims with compassion and mercy. Even when their beloved has behavior that may be less desirable, there’s still a universal knowingness and a loving essence for the human heart before them. Yet we all have this innate ability to give the power of unconditional love.

Sage says, “It’s beautiful to recognize the divine attributes that we’re all born with.” Love, compassion, empathy, mercy, nourishment, acceptance, forgiveness. “It’s our nature when we are in our essence to offer that love.” And while many think of love as feminine energy, the truth is that it is both masculine and feminine – it is divine.

Mother energies are universal. Because it takes both grit and grace, both fragility and fierceness, both physical and spiritual strength, to sponsor life.

Love is both giving and receiving

Giving love has always come naturally to Sage, but there was still room for growth. She says, “I looked at motherhood as an extension, a giving, but I didn’t see the receiving part of it.” Her trouble becoming a biological mother brought her on an unexpected path – one that took her back to her own wholeness.

Sage realized that the power of love wasn’t just for others, but also for herself. That taking care of herself was equally important. That she could not pour from an empty cup. She says, “I stumbled upon, through grace, the gift of mothering and nourishing my own self.”