| but we are surrounded by so much conflict and strife that I feel we all must examine the intention behind the energy we send out into the universe when we interact with each other. It seems that so often we give more respect and courtesy to a stranger than the people who share our homes and beds.
The articles we have chosen this month question why we sometimes give ourselves permission to hurt the ones who mean the most to us, while giving insights into how we can recognize and change these patterns. Most of all, I want this issue to encourage all of us to recognize the sacred divinity in the love that we share with friends, families and everyone we encounter.
I often feel that the word love gets thrown around with reckless abandon in our culture. We can love ice cream and we can love our mothers. So what does it really mean? From a young age we learn it, we use it but what is the intention behind it? We love, but we yell, we love but we lie, we love but we fear. I believe that we glimpse the divine when we are able to open our hearts to each other and let the walls of defensiveness and artifice fall away. The beauty we see in our friends, families and lovers when we practice this type of authenticity is a reflection of the beauty that is already within ourselves.
I look forward to a world in which the ideal of namaste, of recognizing and honoring the divinity within each of us is the foundation of all our relationships. Enjoy this issue and find inspiration and wisdom in its pages.
Namaste!
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