Words by Neil Watkins:
My dad was not one to say I love you. But that did not mean that he didn’t
feel it.
Love is concentrated and focused appreciation. It is not the saying of those
3 little words that matter. It is the demonstration of love in action. But
more than that it’s the feeling behind what drives that action. The action
symbolises the feeling. Love should not be something you plan to take nor
hope to receive. But something you give without quantifying because you
feel lucky just to stand where you do. Love is not something that you give
away. In fact it is a feeling that you feel and feeling it is already the benefit
of allowing yourself to do so. Love is in fact a personal experience, self
fulfilling and self energizing, but it can be felt using different focus points
from an object, to a moment, to a person or towards life itself. Because it is
a state of feeling, that thanks the universe for the luck that has brought
forth this focus point. The more you allow yourself to feel love, the more
the universe brings you reasons to feel love. It is self amplifying. No more
so is it self amplifying than when love is reciprocated in the eyes of
another. When those eyes light up to our presence, the silent knowing that
the other person is experiencing the same sense of luck that we feel for this
moment is amplifying how lucky we feel exponentially in a feedback loop
of joy. Those 3 little words we often so desperately wish to hear do not
convey this with any real substance. In fact they detract from it. Because
when you reduce such an infinitely powerful moment to a string of words.
The words can only be less than the silent expression that is pure. My dad
loved anyone and everyone without hardly uttering a word on the matter.
Perhaps it took us many years to understand that this form of silent love is
not less in substance than one which repeats a cliché phrase. But in fact, it
is substantially more.
My dad lived as a shining example of how to be a good and kind person.
Right thought and right action are born out of a mentality of service to
others. When we observe life as a whole and we ask the question “What is
the motive of nature, of consciousness?”. We eventually arrive at the
answer that is always, progress towards more life…. More growth, more
information, more diverse experience, more opportunity for joy, more
laughter, more ways to experience love.
When you align yourself with right thought and action you become
someone whose motivation is aligned with consciousness in creating more
life around you in everything you do. When you do things in this way
there is a harmony between you and that which underpins reality. You may
call this karma. This was a core motivation in my dads nature, to use his
life to bring more life to others. To provide people with the service they
need in that moment, from a cup of coffee, to a belly full of laughter, to a
roof over their head.
As many people know, my dad was a great poet. My cousin Adam is now
going to read one.
Words by Neil Watkins:
My dad was not one to say I love you. But that did not mean that he didn’t
feel it.
Love is concentrated and focused appreciation. It is not the saying of those
3 little words that matter. It is the demonstration of love in action. But
more than that it’s the feeling behind what drives that action. The action
symbolises the feeling. Love should not be something you plan to take nor
hope to receive. But something you give without quantifying because you
feel lucky just to stand where you do. Love is not something that you give
away. In fact it is a feeling that you feel and feeling it is already the benefit
of allowing yourself to do so. Love is in fact a personal experience, self
fulfilling and self energizing, but it can be felt using different focus points
from an object, to a moment, to a person or towards life itself. Because it is
a state of feeling, that thanks the universe for the luck that has brought
forth this focus point. The more you allow yourself to feel love, the more
the universe brings you reasons to feel love. It is self amplifying. No more
so is it self amplifying than when love is reciprocated in the eyes of
another. When those eyes light up to our presence, the silent knowing that
the other person is experiencing the same sense of luck that we feel for this
moment is amplifying how lucky we feel exponentially in a feedback loop
of joy. Those 3 little words we often so desperately wish to hear do not
convey this with any real substance. In fact they detract from it. Because
when you reduce such an infinitely powerful moment to a string of words.
The words can only be less than the silent expression that is pure. My dad
loved anyone and everyone without hardly uttering a word on the matter.
Perhaps it took us many years to understand that this form of silent love is
not less in substance than one which repeats a cliché phrase. But in fact, it
is substantially more.
My dad lived as a shining example of how to be a good and kind person.
Right thought and right action are born out of a mentality of service to
others. When we observe life as a whole and we ask the question “What is
the motive of nature, of consciousness?”. We eventually arrive at the
answer that is always, progress towards more life…. More growth, more
information, more diverse experience, more opportunity for joy, more
laughter, more ways to experience love.
When you align yourself with right thought and action you become
someone whose motivation is aligned with consciousness in creating more
life around you in everything you do. When you do things in this way
there is a harmony between you and that which underpins reality. You may
call this karma. This was a core motivation in my dads nature, to use his
life to bring more life to others. To provide people with the service they
need in that moment, from a cup of coffee, to a belly full of laughter, to a
roof over their head.
As many people know, my dad was a great poet. My cousin Adam is now
going to read one.