Chopra on the force of love

The force of love is actually real.
In modern life we have grown used to randomness,
To the notion that life is precarious
And threatened at every turn.

But the history of life shows that it has survived
For billions of years; in fact it seems to create conditions
For its own survival by means of some deep intelligence
That is never threatened.

No matter how hostile the conditions,
Life is inextinguishable.

You can apply this insight to your own life.
Imagine its very beginning,
When against billions of odds
A single sperm managed to fertilize an ovum
In your mother’s womb.

Your present identity depends entirely on that act.
The chances against this single occurrence
Would make it seem impossible,
But it happened effortlessly.

Likewise, there have been millions
Of assaults against you from the environment:
From pollution and radiation,
Even from random mutations within your cells;
Any one of these could have ended
Your chances of survival
At any time from conception to the present day.

Yet the intelligence and organizing power inside you
Has overcome these obstacles with effortless ease,
Despite all the struggle your conscious mind
Could not anticipate or plan how to conceive life,
Keep it going, or defend it from such terrible dangers.

Now, if this effortless ease can operate
At the unconscious and cellular level,
Why not on the conscious?

Can you see yourself riding the crest of the wave of life?
In fact, that is what you are doing at every moment.

Your personal impulses to think, feel, and act
Are like the crest of a wave,
Constantly falling forward into the future,
Yet constantly renewed form below –
The surge of love that constantly upholds life
Is like the surge of the ocean that renews each wave.

Seeing this is the beginning of trust.
In the light of trust, as it develops slowly over time,
You will find that you are a privileged child of the universe,
Entirely safe, entirely supported, entirely loved.