Love is the rock upon which we build our lives, relationships, families, communities, our world, and our interrelationship with all life. Love is the rock from which we base our hopes, dreams, and aspirations. It is the unmovable ground upon which we feel safe, joined, seen, known, desired, needed and held.

From our first breath we navigate our world moving instinctually toward that which will bring the most comfort, warmth, and stability—that which engenders tenderness, grace, and acceptance. Love. We believe that love comes from outside us and we have to find it, deserve it, keep it, and control it. Grappling, we move toward it, wanting unconditional union, and most times, find love laced with conditions, misunderstanding, disappointment, displeasure, betrayal, and emotional bankruptcy.

Our lives flatten as we acknowledge that we have to love first. We have to love ourselves, learn what love is and how it works. Using excerpts from her poems, I share a preview of how she speaks to our collective love journeys.

“For each of us, love had distorted meaning,
Shaped by survival of what we were missing.

Now in this new moment,
I accept our different ways of love,
I see how love’s currency was spent.

“Now I tap my roots deeply,
pulling Love from within.
Child of Love’s Hope,
parent the self,
Be born again.”

There is a space of emptiness that the perceived loss of love brings. We struggle! “Oh, it can’t be true. He/she does love me! I know it, if only………..” The page turns and there is emptiness, what now? “Who can I find to love me?” “How can I make this work?” “How can I make sure that I am not alone?” There is order to this—first I love myself, and then I can love another. First I forgive myself, and then I can forgive another.

From the inner depths of her own awareness, Dr. Darya offers us glimpses of the silver lining of the clouds of despair, loss, challenge, judgment, manipulation, blackmail, and seduction that love so often brings.

“Don’t lie to me; lie to someone who can’t see.
Lie to strangers; lie when there’s no intimacy.
When I discover lies from those I trust most,
they become enemies I mistakenly brought close.”

As we listen to the precise and pointed clarity of Dr. Darya’s extraordinary eye, seeing within how we construct our world, we move to a more heightened self-awareness, self-acceptance, and fuller consciousness of patterns that continue in each love avenue we go down. There is projection, rejection, blind faith, delusion, pretense, obligation, Mother-need, Father-need, sexual entanglement.

“Heal the self, if new results you seek to find, ‘cause in love we’re all being paid in kind.”

She brilliantly reflects the ways we seduce ourselves into believing that what we need sits right in front of us—if only we can be smaller, bigger, more patient, more available, tolerate more, need less, do more.

“Love may not appear to match images in the brain.
You must discern entry into love’s diverse terrain:”

Her poems bring to life how the wounds of our small hearts stay with us as we grow bigger and bigger bodies. She uncovers those initial hurts and lays them out, her poignant images penetrating the layers of our childhood, adolescence, and adult years, bringing us to acknowledge, “Yes! Yes! That’s right! How did she know? Me, too. WOW.”

“Fear blocks the inner eye’s sun,
triggering images past for the moment begun.”

“For there are no dark places that go forever unseen,
since we live on a universal projection screen.”

“The same perceived circumstances
trigger the chain of events again.”

“For we may not know the curves
the road will take.
We know the path traveled so far.
Is this the future you want to make?”

Painlessly she rips apart our defenses leaving us grateful, restored, understood, and stronger. Just seeing the truth absolves the lie. Just being in the presence of the wisdom she unfolds offers us the knowledge that the wisdom is in us, too.

We see the Love path drawn out through her words and the true identity of the mother, father, sister, brother, lover, and child self. We see the twisted and the straight, the tortured and the cured, the possible and the actual. We see it all.

“Relationships are perfect mirrors, you know.
He/she has held he energy for you to unfold
the whole of who you are, ever evolving star.
Homeward come all your exiled parts,
no matter the outcomes, no matter the starts.”

As we see, we choose to close the gap inside, to bring the learning nearer, to open the heart to the potential, and to guide the soul ever more clearly home to rest within us, within the heart that we strengthen through our own becoming.

“Weary from my travels, moving in other’s zones, I then made the choice to call myself home.”

“I made the choice to love all my parts,
tattered and tender, known and unknown—
into a vibrant heart
the circle of life
has sown.”

“When the crisis comes, to ”the third thing” we can go:
commitment to the relationship beyond ego.
Whether you stay or leave, handle love’s crises
With all the love you know.”

“And perhaps you will discover Pure Love so true—
no hidden motives driving the things that you do—
only Pure Love radiating to others through you.”

“People, learn to love the shadow.
Go deeper than the shell.
Learning to love all of us
may deliver us from hell.”

“Be Love and you are Beloved.
You are the Fruit and you are the Seed.
Be Love, Beloved.
Let this be your Creed.”

And Dr. D goes further. She shows how we co-create these learnings with those we used to blame, and ritualize our pain, again and again. She calls us to acknowledge from the deepest space within, that we are only love slaves that spin and spin and spin.

Then, introducing spirit, soul, interconnectedness, and grace, Dr. D tells us about the greatest love, the broadest gateway to peace, understanding, and self-honoring. Bringing forth the wisdom she has gathered in personal and corporate work, she unifies themes of self, family, community, life streams, business, the world, and the universe. She relates these Love themes to a new order, and a much promised and prophesized place awaiting our choice and memory, individually and collectively. This place is the promise of oneness that becomes available when we no longer seek to love from ego, control from mind, or attach to outcome—available when we seek to love not only as a psyche, but also as a soul.

Dr. D’s intention and accomplishment is showing us how this is done. As she offers in her seminars and corporate work, she lays out for us a road to freedom and vision. She leads us to own our creative energy and teaches us how to share and collaborate, transforming the habitual and conditioned.

“It is best not to discern realities with emotions
or desires, for these waters and fires
are fed by the psyche, not Divinely inspired.”

“This play is not because either one of us
is more powerful or has total control,
but because we agreed long ago as souls—
‘These energies for one another, we will hold:’”

“Looking through the lens of this view of truth,
Players and the Played all come home to roost.
No more victims to save or persecutors to hang;
Just vision for us to see and courage for us to stand.
Our hearts are designed to intersect all across the land.”

“So just remember, people:
When we think our Play is on,
Great Spirit is playing us all,
And the game’s already won.”

“That’s why I send my blankets over you,
So your heart will never again be broken,
Once you have the courage to let it open.”

I Send My Blankets Over You—Lessons of Love is a gift of Love. Purely and clearly, it calls us to see, allows us to acknowledge, encourages our release, shows us how to move on, invites us to come together and join hands with all those who walk with us, and gives us acceptance of others and ourselves. We see Love in all its many facets and all its many expressions, freely, with no residue, need or fear. We see the potential of all humans to grow as one organism under the Great Spirit of the Heart, and we respond. We respond organically, and we grow, expand, understand, and celebrate.

We celebrate our heart, our vision, and our humanity, and then reflect on that humanity. Perhaps for the first time, we see opportunities to transform our families and social systems through the heart, accessing the ground of our Love as the rock upon which to build these new models of being.

Dr. D remarkably offers us a new vision of the human drama, transforming us into sacred warriors of peace and light. It happens as we read, recite, and reflect. It’s naturally occurring. We sigh. We acknowledge. We let down, we let go of the way it was. Memories of oneness and potential surface from within the deep recesses of our psyche, and the revelations startle us into accordance, and we flow in the grace and possibility of Love’s blanket.

Flo Aeveia Magdalena
Author of I Remember Union and Sunlight on Water


From Love is the Power, Chapter Six. Calling Love Warriors

“What if Love is the Power, moving everything—
the thunder of the heavens, the blooming in the Spring?
What if Love is the Power, holding all life brings—
the movement of the waters and the song the swan must sing?”

“So let’s take Love as the Power,
no matter what else we see.
Let love fill each hour,
joining us eternally.
Flowing from heaven’s gateways,
bursting from earth’s deep springs,
Love heals our wounded spaces,
and the ancients weep and sing.”