All is Full of Love

I first directly associated Bjork's music with a spiritual worldview while studying Bhakti Yoga in India in 2010. Listening to "Hidden Place" from Vespertine created vivid imagery of the divine couple, Radha and Krishna, secretly meeting in the spring forest for an intimate rendezvous. It was then that I began to interpret almost all of her music through the lens of what I was learning and experiencing in the practice of Awareness.

Bjork's music inspires and uplifts me. It offers love, wisdom, encouragement. I would like to write spirited responses to various songs as a way to focus on what has been meaningful and helpful in my development. Huzzah!

I decided to start with a song that in some ways is the most difficult of all. "All is Full of Love" is the last song on Bjork's fourth studio album.


"All is full of love." This realization seems to encompass all other truths that lead to peace and fulfillment. All is Full of Love. Love permeates all things. Love is everywhere. There is no place that love is not. It is a pretty concept and our fear-based egos want it to remain just that: a concept.

All is full of love is not just a concept. It is a lived reality. It is an experience that is always available to us whenever we open ourselves to it. Love is all there is. In a field of flowers: love. In your warm bed: love. In a delicious breakfast: love. Spending time with friends: love. Watching a sunset: love. In the middle of war: love. The beginning of a breakup: love. The loss of a loved one: love.

Our minds think they have a handle on all things. Without our conscious awareness they label and judge everything around us. They like us to believe that there are some places where there is not love. This act creates separation, isolation, fragmentation. We think we get to decide what is good and what is bad. In this model, we're not even really concerned about love. We still think it exists, but only in places we determine to be good. Everything else is seen as bad, evil. Love does not exist in those places.

All is Full of Love is the ultimate surrender. Surrender to everything. All is love. You do not decide. All is love.

"You'll be given love." There is nothing you can do to break the constant flow of love to you. There is nothing you can do to separate yourself from love. Love is an unconditional presence, not dependent on any external condition. You'll be given love - always, despite anything. You don't have to do anything, you don't have to stop doing anything, you don't have to have anything, you don't have to give up anything. You'll be given love. At all times, you are given love.

You'll be taken care of." When you surrender yourself to love, to the place beyond good & bad, beyond effort & control, you reside in a place of care. You don't have to try and protect yourself; you don't have to save yourself; you don't have to fight for security. All is full of love; you'll be taken care of - always, without condition.

"You'll be given love. YOU HAVE TO TRUST IT." I've realized that trust can be a vague word. How do you trust? what does that mean? what does it look like? To trust means to say "yes," to have Faith. It starts with a risk - Faith. You are unsure of the outcome. You must trust and have courage. You say Yes. You trust and say yes. Then what you once had faith in becomes an experience. It is no longer faith. You said yes and experienced the truth. This is essential. You can spend your whole life doubting and mentally calculating where you have seen love and where you haven't. You are not allowing yourself openness to what is always there. When you trust and say yes, only then do you live the experience of all being full of love.

.....to be continued.....