With Love: As Love Is

By G. Bradley

This is a book that show how love works and how to make it work for you. Nurture the love within and the rest will follow. You can free yourself from the past by turning your thoughts to the love of that is in and near you today. Reclaim your innocence with love. Feel your happiness blossom and flow forward.

• Language: English
• Publisher: G. Bradley Publishing
• Release date: Jan 8, 2024
• ISBN: 9781963379952

G. Bradley

G. Bradley is a retired teacher that taught high school students that were at risk of not graduating. He began a comprehensive study of unconditional love found in metaphysical teachings in his early thirties. He became proficient at presenting weekend workshops on the subject. G.Bradley kept many years of notes from his meditations and workshops. In spite of his ability to teaching about unconditional love, he was reserved about using the words of love. He began the practice of using words to express his love in his senior years when he began a new love relationship. G. Bradley was amazed at how easily the words came forth once he opened the door. Being moved by his own words he decided to put these messages to print.

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Dedication

I dedicate this writing to my father. I was conceived in love and raised with lots of love. I was not supposed to live at birth and my father dedicated his life to me if I would only live, and he held true to his promise. Love was expressed or shown, but the love word was not used much in our household, which was the norm for that generation. I was very sentimental and loving, but I too ended up having a hard time saying the words I Love You until I reached my senior years.

One late fall Sunday, I was going to meet my parents at a Packer game for tailgating and the game. I decided that this would be a great time for me to share the words of love with my father that I have been holding onto for too long. At six o’clock that Sunday morning, I got a phone call from my mother, informing me that my father had died early that morning. I missed my opportunity. I understand that this is not an unfamiliar story. Nonetheless, it was my first awakening moment.

I would be remiss if I did not give credit to the nurses that tended to my life at birth and a few other times since. I was born almost three months premature at a time when the medical community was not equipped to handle such situations. When I was not in the incubator, a nurse was holding me close and even feeding me with an eye dropper. My mother was a nurse, and these were her friends, sharing their concerns. My mother recalls a huge amount of love being shown to me by all involved. According to my mother, it was that love that contributed to my life. I dedicate this writing to all of those who are at our service in attending to our personal needs.

I include those that express their love with actions as well as those that have the grace to find the words of love. We commit so many acts of kindness and service when we do not know the long-term impact of the love we offer.

I dedicate this book to love and romance. It is the love we find in a close friendship or a romantic relationship that provides the security and confidence that is needed to make changes in our own personalities. It is my admitted shortfalls with romantic love that began my journey of looking more closely at the workings of love. I have had the fortune of being a part of love and romance in my past relationships. I was able to witness my parents having a lifelong loving relationship. I discovered that I had a lot to learn about myself and love. I began to open up to these realizations in my sixties when I was about to enter into another loving relationship. I was inspired to write quotes or short verses about the love I was feeling. Those quotes began to present deeper realizations about love. This all had me meditating on the subject of love and my personal relationship with love itself. I had sent hundreds of quotes to my girlfriend. A couple of years later, I was moved enough by my own messages to write this book about love and feature those quotes.

I also dedicate this writing to all of you that are looking for ways to expand your insights regarding love. I hope you might find some words here that you can use in part or in their entirety to express yourself. Perhaps these words will put your mind at ease in many ways. I have come to realize that the act of being more mindful of love has not only helped me greatly with finding the words to express my love but has brought many positive experiences into my life. I have come to know more intimately the love that lies within me. I continue to be inspired by these quotes. The awakened feelings and sensations that go with love have been life-changing for me. I now know that love has always been with me and is a big part of who I am to this day. I dedicate that love to you and yours.

Credit

This is the place in a book where the author gives credit to those that have inspired and contributed to the writing. I could not begin to give credit to all the acts of love and tough love that have passed under my bridge. I am certain that there are many that I would not remember in my effort to give credit where credit is due.

I pay tribute and give credit to the origin of the phrase Remember Who Loves You. My career had me teaching high school students that were facing emotionally charged situations in life. There were many times I wanted to simply tell them that I loved them, but I could not say it. One day, as everyone was leaving, I just blurted out, Remember Who Loves You. It stuck and became the traditional end of our daily salutation.

I give credit to each and every one of you. Through some wisdom of creation, there is an innate ability to love built into us all. We are drawn to love. We want to know everything we can about its wonders. We can’t get enough of it in these troubled times. There is always more love and another corner we can look around to find it. You are reading this book because there is something that draws you to wanting to know more about love. The feeling that goes with love takes on countless shapes, has a place in every person, and is a part of every union. It is love that draws us to nature. I give credit to all of the places where love can be found with my gratitude.

I give my thanks and pay tribute to the endless publications already dedicated to the subject of love and to those that will follow mine. I thank you the reader for your interest in love and the promotion of its grace across the globe.

Intro to Love

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he process of putting the feelings about love into words, started for me when personal events caused me to realize I was not being true to myself when it came to love. I was not being fair to myself and those I loved by not finding ways to express myself. I was feeling a lot of love and behaving in a loving way, but the words that went with it were stuck. It was time to make this change in my life.

An opportunity evolved for me to hold myself to that promise. This began with me attempting to express myself in my communications with a new relationship. I was surprised at how much had been pent up in me and how words of love flowed once I gave them a chance. I was not only enlightened by the realization of how much love was within me but also how much there was around me that I was not noticing.

My writing progressed from my expressing myself regarding a relationship to me looking at my surroundings and stating what they had in common with my thoughts regarding love. I began to use moments of contemplation or meditation, to bring forth even deeper or seemingly more profound insights about the nature of love. At some point along the way, I was being asked to put words of love into family events. To my surprise, these too presented themselves with ease.

I have discovered through the review of these verses for publication that my own words bring me repeated comfort. The images that have been presented continue to hit an emotional chord within me. I am constantly aware of the comforting and even healing effect love has on us all. There is so much to consider about love.

There is a natural state of love that lies somewhere within our being. Everyone is able to identify with love in some way. The sensations that go with love create feelings that give us a sense of comfort and have a soothing or healing effect on us. The ability to feel love is as much a part of our nature as breathing itself. There is a reason why we are drawn to love. Love is a basic and simple part of our being.

It is our intellect that makes love more complex. Love is the reason why we are compassionate and caring people. We are empathic. We can feel others' hurts and joys. It is our personality that decides how and where we express our concerns for others. Love does not interfere with our individuality. Love lets us be who we choose to be. It is the feelings that go with love that set us free. It is the feelings of love that we recognize as the truth of who or what we are meant to be. What we choose as love in our lives affects how we carry ourselves in our everyday activities. Love is not only with and around us. It is a part of us. Love can be who and what we are as a human race.

There is much more to love than most of us have ever imagined. We can grow with love because there is no limit to the ways love can be expressed and experienced. Each of us has our own way of expressing our love. Love is always there and is always available. Love has a feeling to it that takes on a spirit and energy that is distinctly its own. This spirit is very recognizable. All we have to do is look in that direction. The spirit of love is felt in moments of sentiment and general wonderment. The spirit of love comforts us in difficult times. Good feelings are exchanged with others when love is acknowledged. Love attracts love. There is also a love that has a soulful existence within us. The feelings of love energize the spirit of who we are even when a relationship is not involved.

We think of love as a big part of our personality. Love, however, is more stable than personality. Personalities are changed by life experiences. Personalities take different forms depending on the situation that they are placed in. Love is love and does not change as we change. We grow and change how we use and express our love. Love is also expansive in that it is available to every personality. We say that love is infinite because we cannot find an end to it. Personality is defined by the mind that goes with it. Love can be felt by a silent mind. I understand now that my love is even more than just what my mind has produced. There is something about love that is so much more resilient and more profound than all the other feelings or emotions that we contend with.

Feel free to share these verses with friends and loved ones. Relax your mind on all issues of life while you enjoy your own discoveries about love as you read this book. Find your favorite verses and use them to become more aware of the presence of love in your everyday activities. Dedicate some time to developing your personal relationship with love. You may even find, as I did, that something opens up in us, as we write and record our own insights about love.

The Spirit of Love

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t is the spirit of love that provides the good feelings we get whenever love touches our lives. Love is our delight. Love is a spirit that can be felt but not seen. The feelings we get from love are welcome and comforting. We share our love with others, and they share their love with us. The sensation that we associate with love has an energy to it that can be felt. This feeling has a spirit to it that we somehow know to be true. The spirit of love is so believable that we are pleased when we have it and long for it when we do not have it. The acquisition of love’s spirit can be almost euphoric, while the loss of this love can be painful. The spirit of love is behind our acts of service. The spirit of love is the flow that sets our creativity free. The spirit of love puts a bounce in our steps and encourages our sense of humor. The spirit of love has an intensity that is not a part of any emotion.

Love is a spark that is designed to move among the masses. It is the kind of energy that wants to be passed on and flow freely. Love has been characterized as a light by some because the spirit of love radiates from its source and is recognized by all as love. The spirit of love energizes us. The spirit of love electrifies and recharges us. Love does not need physical proximity to be felt or extended to others. Love is the reflection of our soul while it calms and comforts the human spirit.

There is a spirit built into most living creatures that identifies with the feeling that we, as humans, have come to call love. Love is an instinct that is empowered by the feelings that it stimulates. These feelings can be felt and identified distinctly as love. Another thing to consider when we think about the energies that accompany love is the potentially infinite number of vibrant thoughts that are at our mind’s disposal that can create this good feeling.

Our brain identifies what we taste or touch as something that we like. The spirit of love gives us a pleasing sensation. Things that the brain identifies are put aside for the next thought. That is how the brain works. Love is always there to give good memories of life. Love transcends any diversity of nationality or culture. Love is included in all aspects of our social being. Love seems to be eternal. There is reason to believe that love has been there from the beginning of man’s creation, and there are those that believe that love will be with us in our final resting place.

We react with a sense of wonderment when we are part of any communication that includes love. Part of the wonder has to do with the fact that love is always there to be found. It is equally amazing that the spirit of love is universal and identifiable enough to talk about anywhere we go. Perhaps it is the love that we feel that gives us the common ground to connect with people in all parts of the world. It is love that turns strangers into friends. Perhaps it is the spirit of love that makes it possible to describe what a beautiful sight or sound looks like to us. It is not any specific word or action that gives love its meaning. It is the feeling that is so recognizable that makes love what it is to us. We are all energized by love in what could be considered to be a natural way. There is no artificial or synthetic source of love.

Love is a part of who we are. Words and actions are what we have to work with when trying to understand what love is to us. Love is the air I breathe. Love just is. Luckily, love, as it is, has a universal vibration or feeling everyone can identify with. We, as an individual, are both the spirit of love and the personality of love. We are as love is when these two become one. The ego holds all of our thoughts and feelings together. Ego is not so much about being stuck on ourselves as it is about being stuck in ourselves. Love is not the love that we hold onto. The love we hold onto is something that we think we need. Who we are, as love is, is about being true to our natural or inherent self. Sometimes life situations force the mind to square off against love. The moment becomes about love versus the mind.

We are who we are in the moment. Love is about the mind being free to learn something new about ourselves. Each day is a new opportunity to love. Each experience of love is like a snowflake. No two experiences or no two moments of experience are the same, but they are still love. Each moment of love is a snowflake on a mountain of love.

Let go. Let love mean it. Let your love flow. There is nothing to let go of in the moment of love. Love is always a part of the moment. It is your choice or freedom of will as to how much love is recognized at the moment. There is a child side of your personality that is predestined to find the love that is present in the moment. Love can be found at any moment because love is free-flowing. You cannot be stuck in emotion when you are a part of the love each moment offers. There is contentment and patience that is brought to the moment by the spirit of love. The spirit of love does not take anything away from you or interfere with you in any way. The spirit of love opens doors while doubt and reservation hold you back.

The life we live is based on our thoughts. We think before we act on most everything. We feel some security knowing that we have made the right decision. The mind is changeable. We often change our minds as we become what we call wiser. The mind can be relaxed enough or hypnotized to change