What Can Angels Teach Us?
This is the third recent post in which I have pondered the meaning and the application of something that I read long ago and that has stayed with me since I first read it: “Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.”
I have never met an angel, nor can I claim any authority about the existence of angels. However, I do suspect that if angels exist, they definitely do take themselves lightly, and they definitely can fly.
I can’t fly. However, there have been plenty of times when I felt very light, in the sense of open, accessible, intuitive, spontaneous, and caring. These have usually been times when I was behaving lovingly to my wife or to someone else.
To love is to be focused in a caring way on someone other than oneself. While you are loving, you are free of the burden of your own self-centeredness. And that means lighter, more expanded in consciousness, more heart-felt — and less burdened.
The more loving you are, the lighter and more free you become. That’s pretty close to flying, I’d say.
If angels exist, they are highly-evolved beings, for sure. I suspect that angels are very close to pure love, which would make them beings of light. Angels can fly, because they have very little ego self that ties them down.
The more loving we are, the more highly-evolved we become (just as the more murderously we behave, the less evolved we become.) The angelic may be well beyond our reach. However, we can still learn from the angels. We can learn to behave more lovingly. And in the process, we can become lighter and less a burden to ourselves and to others . We can realize what may be the real reason that we are here on the earth — to brighten the lives of others through our love. Through love, we can take flight.
Tags: angels, burdens, gifts of love, Light, Spirit, Spirituality
