Assume Love
- Jo Moore
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A Spiritual Practice for Returning to the Heart
What if life is far more loving than you’ve been taught to believe? What if affection, support, and connection are not rare miracles but quiet currents moving through your daily existence - subtle, shimmering, ever-present? What if the universe is constantly offering you small gestures of grace, and all you need to do is soften your perception to see them?
This is the essence of a simple, spiritual practice:
Assume love.
Not in the sense of blindly believing every person is infatuated with you,but in the deeper, soul-level sense of assuming that life itself is oriented toward connection, goodness, warmth, and expansion.
Assuming love is choosing to interpret the world through a lens of gentleness instead of fear.
It is remembering - again and again - that beneath people’s awkwardness, stress, silence, or imperfections lies a beating heart capable of recognizing yours. It is a shift from ego-perception to soul-perception. A shift from suspicion to trust. A shift from fear to belonging. Ram Dass once said:
“In the end, we are all just walking each other home.”
Assuming love is how we remember that truth in real time.
The Inner Light That Lets You See Love Everywhere
When you walk through the world with a spiritually open heart, you understand something subtle but profound: The world meets you at the level of your consciousness. If you expect hostility, you will find it. If you expect indifference, you will feel it. If you expect rejection, you will assume it into existence. But if you expect love - even quietly, even gently - you begin to notice it everywhere.
A stranger’s nod. A neighbour’s wave. A friend’s softening expression when they see you. A moment of patience offered when you needed it most. These tiny points of human warmth become like secret love notes from the universe. Not because they changed - but because you did. As Rumi wrote:
“What you seek is seeking you.”
When you seek love, you find the reflections of love that were always shimmering beneath the surface.
Assuming Love as a Path of Awakening
Spiritual awakening isn’t just about meditation or mystical experiences - it’s also about transforming the lens through which you meet the world. To assume love is to assume:
✨ people are doing their best
✨ most wounds are invisible
✨ silence often hides vulnerability
✨ every soul longs to give and receive connection
✨ love is the deepest truth beneath human messiness
This simple shift brings the nervous system into peace, the mind into clarity, and the heart into softness. You begin to realize that life is not trying to hurt you. People are not your enemies. The universe is not withholding. Much of what feels painful is not personal - it is simply unspoken human struggle. Assuming love helps you move through the world as an awakened presence rather than a defensive one.
When You Assume Love, the World Feels Like Sacred Ground
When you assume love, your perception becomes more tender, more spacious, more attuned to beauty. Instead of seeing a dangerous world full of emotional minefields, you begin to experience:
a gentle world, full of subtle kindness
a supportive world, nudging you forward
a soulful world, rich with potential for connection
a mystical world, where energies meet and mingle
Even the smallest interactions become meaningful. A child smiling at you for no reason whatsoever. Someone holding the door open for you. A person stepping aside to let you pass on the street. These become small acts of grace. Little reminders that love is present in the ordinary.
In the Hindu tradition, there is a concept called darshan - the act of seeing and being seen by the divine. Assuming love is a kind of everyday darshan, where every interaction becomes an opportunity to experience the holiness in one another.
The Spiritual Reason We Assume the Worst (and Why It Hurts Us)
Human beings are wired to fear what they don’t understand. The ego, especially, wants certainty - even if that certainty is painful. So instead of facing the vulnerability of not knowing, the mind often fills in the blanks with fear:
“They didn’t smile - maybe they don’t like me.”
“They seem quiet - maybe I did something wrong.”
“They didn’t reply - maybe I’m unimportant.”
But these are not truths.They are protective stories. And they constrict the heart.
Spiritual teachers across traditions remind us that the ego’s job is survival - but the soul’s job is expansion. Assuming love is choosing the soul’s path. It’s saying:
“I will not let fear be the narrator of my life.”
You Are Interpreting Your Life Anyway—Choose Love
Every moment, your mind is interpreting:
tone
silence
facial expressions
body language
timing
eye contact - or lack of it
Interpretation is unavoidable. But you get to choose the flavour of your interpretations. As the Course in Miracles teaches:
“Perception is a choice, not a fact.”
Assuming love means choosing the interpretation that expands you, not the one that diminishes you. It means remembering that:
✨ people are allowed to be tired
✨ people are allowed to be distracted
✨ people are allowed to have their own inner storms
✨ people are allowed to be imperfect and still hold love for you
And you are allowed to believe in the goodness beneath it all.
The Energetic Field of Assuming Love
When you assume love, you radiate a different energy - one that others can feel in your presence. Your aura softens.Your tone warms.Your eyes brighten.Your nervous system relaxes. This creates a spiritual feedback loop:
You assume love → you act with love → you receive love.
It’s not magic - it’s resonance. You become a tuning fork for compassion. As Thich Nhat Hanh said:
“We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.”
Assuming love dissolves that illusion.
The Universe Responds Differently When You Lead With Love
From a spiritual perspective, the universe is echoic. It mirrors the vibration you bring to it. If you lead with fear, fear meets you back. If you lead with love, love returns in ways you don’t expect.
When you assume love:
synchronicities increase
conversations deepen
strangers behave more warmly
relationships soften
intuition becomes clearer
you attract gentler, kinder people
life feels less like a struggle and more like a flow
You begin to feel held. Guided. Supported. You walk through the world with a quieter heart.
Assume Love Doesn’t Mean Ignore Red Flags
This is important. Assuming love doesn’t mean:
denying your intuition
tolerating harmful behaviour
spiritual bypassing
ignoring your boundaries
Assuming love simply means: Don’t create pain where none exists. Don’t twist silence into rejection. Don’t assume the worst when you don’t know the truth.
Hold love as your base assumption - but hold wisdom too. Love with eyes open. Trust with discernment. Stay soft, but don’t abandon yourself.
Your Daily Practice: Small Ways to Assume Love
Here are some gentle, spiritual practices you can weave into everyday life:
1. Whisper to yourself: “I choose love over fear.”
Repeat it when you feel anxious, misread, or unsure.Let it recalibrate your energy.
2. See every person as a soul on their own difficult path.
Remember Ram Dass:
“We’re all just walking each other home.”
This thought alone can dissolve judgment and open compassion.
3. When someone is distant, assume they need grace—not punishment.
Hold them in compassion rather than suspicion.
4. Treat small gestures as divine winks.
a smile
a kind word
a moment of patience
someone letting you go first
Let these be reminders of universal love moving through human hands.
5. When your mind creates a fearful story, pause.
Ask:
“What is another, more loving interpretation?”
“What is their soul trying to communicate that their words cannot?”
“How would love see this moment?”
This one practice rewires everything.
6. Believe - quietly, humbly - that you are cherished more than you know.
Most people admire you silently. Most people care more than they can express. Most people think of you with more warmth than you imagine. Let this be true. It probably is.
The Spiritual Truth: You Are Love Meeting Love
When you move through the world assuming love, you begin to experience life not as a battlefield, but as a shared spiritual journey. You see the holiness in ordinary interactions. You recognize the light in strangers. You remember your own worth. You feel connected to everything. The world becomes softer - not because it changed, but because you did. You start living from your soul instead of your stories. And you embody one of the deepest spiritual truths:
Love is not something you find. Love is something you choose to see.
Closing Blessing
May you walk through this life with a heart that assumes love. May every interaction become an opportunity to recognize the divine in another. May every silence remind you of how much is unfolding beneath the surface. May every moment soften you toward deeper compassion. And may you always remember:
You are held. You are seen. You are loved. More than you know.
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