Living in the Spirit of Love: Our Natural State of Being

By Dr. Jean Marie Farish

LOVE can be joyful and exhilarating and the absence of it can be hurtful and painful. Do you have a burning desire to love and be loved? What stories are you telling yourself about Love? What does your ideal life look like? Invest in yourself and change your life. If you are traveling down the same beaten with the same outcome, step onto a new path to renew, reset and reclaim your personal power. This book will help you master your life and flourish in Love. In this book, you’ll learn how to:

- Become a better and more evolved YOU
- Feel good by making life affirming choices
- Deepen your feelings and expressions of love
- Tune in love and sustain the change
- Flourish in love and find your joy

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Jun 21, 2020
• ISBN: 9781982249489

Dr. Jean Marie Farish

The mission of Dr. Jean Marie Farish is to spread the message of love. She is the VoiceAmerica World Talk Radio Empowerment Show LOVE LIGHT Host, award-winning bestselling author, educator, Life Care Coach, and Certified Rehabilitation Counselor (CRC). Dr. Jean Marie combines her educational training (Ph.D. in Rehabilitation, MS in Rehabilitation Counseling, BA in Psychology), career as an administrator and professor in higher education, and service as a Rehabilitation Counselor Practitioner in her teaching, writing, and service. She is the Founder and CEO, Life Care Wellness PEP for Angels, Inc., “to enrich lives and serve our community” with emphasis on children hospitalized; and Jean Marie Farish Center for Conscious Loving, LLC. Fundamental to her work is her own life’s transformation. She continues to grow and learn, and is inspired by witnessing others become awake in their lives as they anchor in the power of love. Her adage, “Each One, Reach One Teach One” creates the ripple effect for change. Website: https://drjeanmariefarish-consciousloving.com

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Balboa Press rev. date: 06/19/2020

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Voice of Love

Chapter 2 Love is a Pathway to Flourish

Chapter 3 Love

Chapter 4 Embody Love and Sustain the Change

Chapter 5 Shifting Our Perspective on Love

Love Mastery Devotion Exercise

My Personalized Life Care Planner

Chapter 6 The Way Forward

About the Cover

We are seasoned travelers of the labyrinth, losing our way and

finding our way; traveling on the beaten path and the road

less traveled; eventually finding our way home to the place

of spiritual rest and fulfillment - and that is divine love.

Foreword

It was Love at First Sight

A gift of scholarship about sharing, caring, and community engagement met up with those who were like-minded in a beautiful university in a garden, which was on the island of Penang, on the west coast of Malaysia, and facing the Indian Ocean. The island was named after the betel nut, which was an exotic fruit and was munched on in that region like chewing gum was in the United States, except that it was mildly narcotic.

That gift, which was an enchanting person, walked my office’s window one morning, 2,500 days ago, at the Universiti Sains Malaysia’s (USM) Centre for Policy Research and International Studies (CenPRIS). She had a lovely smile that made me smile back at her.

The deputy vice chancellor of the university, Professor Susie See, unexpectedly knocked on my door and walked in with that enchantment in a coat that was not so common in my country. Professor Susie said, Anwar, meet Professor Jean Farish, your new neighbor, who will be working with us on some pioneering, community, and engagement projects. She will also help to produce a book on the subject that both of you need to engage in. A handshake followed. I was so pleased with the warmth and firmness of the handshake and the addition of her lovely smile.

The office next door had been vacant for months, and now we were blessed with someone who brought a joyous breeze, a smiling demeanor, and gentleness and who was ready to sprout a book on a subject after my heart. She settled next door, her nameplate was affixed, and work began on a book called Volunteerism in Malaysia: Fostering Civic Responsibility. The pioneering book saw the light of day as scheduled, and it is a truly unique contribution and an inspiration to those who work with the community on literally every area of social work.

During the six months she was with us, Jean sprouted her own natural state of being and lived in the spirit of love. She transcended soil, soul, and society, locally, nationally, and globally, while engaging the heads, hearts, and hands of all who were interconnected into the web that makes our state of being.

This book embodies, in a systematic, organic, and holistic way, the path of living meaningfully the spirit of love. It gets you to speak to yourself about the core values of humanity. It takes you systematically up the path of peace with yourself, others, humanity, and Mother Earth.

Jean opens our hearts to see the rainbow of colors that our lives can be through love, which can ignite and inspire us toward happiness. She shares sparks of actions and takes us to islands of hope and wells that spring the waters of a loving life. In its own engaging way, this book brilliantly transforms feelings of love into words, words into actions that can make change, and change that can become a constant guiding light toward the spirit of love, which is part of a natural being—a loving one who makes a difference to humanity through wholesome humaneness.

Thank you, Jean, for this great gift to humanity and for reminding us about the universality of love, which underpins us and makes us not only aware of it but also grows it full of life. This life matters if we want a better self, community, and universe.

Let me, in return, share a poem I wrote some two decades ago in a book called Prayers for the Next Thousand Years. It is titled, Remember We Are One.

We all drink from one water We all breathe from one air

We rise from one ocean

And we live under one sky

Remember

We are one

The new born baby cries the same

The laughter of children is universal

Everyone’s blood is red

And our hearts beat the same song

Remember

We are one

Peace be on you

Brothers and Sisters

Peace be on you.

Thank you again, Jean, for the wonderful gift of your presence, for sharing in Penang, and now for this gift to the world. You began with us as a love at first sight, and now you will be forever with us through the love that you shared with us in this brilliant and compassionate work of how to make the change we and the world need more than ever.

There’s one more thing. Your nameplate from the time when you were my neighbor is still in my office, reminding us that you can never leave us and did not. From love at first sight, you are now loved forever.

Anwar Fazal

Penang Island, Malaysia

November 11, 2019

Anwar Fazal is the director of Right Livelihood College and a former professor at the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). He is the recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, which is popularly known as the Alternative Nobel Prize, for his work on civil rights and environmental issues. He was given the Gandhi-King-Ikeda Award from Ward Morehouse College, USA, for his work on interfaith and peace issues.

Acknowledgments

In Gratitude and Dedication

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I am grateful for all the teachers in my life and all the life experiences that put me on a right path. I am grateful for the power that is within me and the spiritual support that I receive each day. I am grateful for the profound, mystical experiences that have revealed my purpose. I am grateful for inspiration and confirmation from the spiritual realm (finding a beautiful white feather in my home).

I pay homage to our master teachers and scholars, who lived by higher ideals. These ideals inspire us to live in a spirit of love.

I’m grateful that Robert Holden