To view this newsletter in the browser, click here                 Issue #172       A newsletter from Creativegarh to help you live a life of passion, purpose and meaning.         Don’t wait for love to sound like you. Learn to hear it as it is.                     Today, God spoke in raindrops while you were waiting for words, and you almost missed the conversation.           Today, a son made his bed in the morning, but his mother was waiting to hear an apology instead.           Today, a mother packed his favourite mac and cheese sandwich for lunch instead of roti with aloo baingan, but the child was expecting a hug instead.           A father’s love showed up this morning as extra pocket money on the dining table, but the child missed it, expecting an apology instead.           A daughter arrived in clean, new clothes and not jeans and an overworn hoodie for dinner, but the father was still waiting for the words, “I’m sorry.”           A friend’s love came as a meme in your inbox, but you were waiting for a long message explaining why they went quiet.           A colleague’s love came as feedback, but you felt it as rejection. A boss’s love came as tough questions, but you thought they were being harsh.           Eight billion people on the planet, and almost everyone speaks their own unique language of love, and love is always speaking in the language of acts, silences, glances, small gestures.           But we miss it because we are waiting for it to arrive in our language, in a form we can recognise, label, and feel safe with. We expect love to come with all the fanfare, sounding the bugle, but that is not how love arrives. Love sneaks through the cracks of our imperfect life and larger-than-life expectations.           We all express and receive love differently - some through words, others through time, touch, service, gifts, or presence. But often, we forget that others are not wired like us. We wait for our preferred dialect of affection, and when love comes in a different accent, we mistranslate it as absence.           Slow down and hear the language of love. It’s in the last slice of pizza left for you; the call that ends with, “I’m here, ping me whenever”; the cup of chai refilled without being asked; the subtle eye contact and nod across a crowded room; the friend who shows up at the door with a bottle of wine; the partner who silently holds your hand mid-argument; the stranger who smiles at you when you’re lost in thought.           Love doesn't shout, it whispers. And if you are always waiting for grand gestures, you’ll miss the quiet miracles.           In fact, love is not a language at all, it’s an energy, a frequency, a presence. It’s the essence of everyone’s beingness. When you slow down, you start to feel it in the spaces between words, in the pauses, in the unspoken tenderness. That’s when you realise no one owes you love in your language. The universe sends it in whatever way will reach you, if only you are awake enough to notice.                       We learnt everything about the world, except how to live in it.                     As we learnt the Pythagoras theorem, maybe we could have also learned how to see things from a different angle than only our conditioning.           As we learnt about integration, someone could have also taught us how to integrate our heart after it broke into a thousand pieces.           We learnt all about tectonic plates and earthquakes, but no one ever taught us how to manage the lifequakes - when the tremors of unexpected experiences rocked our lives.           As we learnt about photosynthesis, no one told us how to find our light in dark phases or how to turn pain into growth.           As we learnt about gravity, no one explained the art of grounding - how to stay rooted when life tries to pull us down.           As we learnt about refraction, no one showed us how to bend without breaking - how to let experiences simply pass through us as we shine in new directions.           When we learnt about atoms, no one mentioned how everything in life - love, loss, joy and fear is made of the same energy, just vibrating at different frequencies.           As we learnt about history, no one helped us realise that our own hysterics are rooted in our own history and programming. No one taught us how to stop repeating our personal patterns and finally make peace with our past.           As we learnt about biology, no one helped us understand the anatomy of emotions - how the heart expands and contracts with the rhythm of love, trust and surrender.           As we sat in class learning about economics, no one told us that true wealth isn’t GDP or bank balance, but gratitude, purpose and love - the currencies that never devalue.           As we learnt about chemistry, no one explained alchemy - the sacred science of turning wounds into wisdom, and experiences into evolution.           As we learnt about physics, no one taught us that energy flows where attention goes, and that thoughts too create worlds.           As we learnt about languages, no one taught us the silent language of presence, where pauses speak louder than words.           As we learnt to measure everything - distance, marks, success, beauty - no one reminded us that some of life’s greatest things can’t be measured, only felt.           Our brain was never designed for a world outside our village. Maybe we never evolved to process a dancing reel right after a story of a school shooting, which was right after a new vegan recipe, which followed a new-age spirituality quote about thinking positive without processing your emotions.           Maybe we are not made for a noisy world. But wherever we are, we have the power to turn down the volume of the world and listen only to what our soul speaks.           Maybe we are not made for a world with such advanced technology. But in this world, we have been given the power to unlearn everything and rediscover who we really are.           Maybe we are not made to know everything that is happening in the world. But in the overload of life, we can choose our pace and limit our world - while feeling the whole of the universe in our beingness.                   Our upcoming retreats                         Kasauli Sold Out 4th to 10th January     The stunning vistas and holistic experiences at Kasauli create the perfect space for self-discovery and ensure this retreat is a transformative and unforgettable experience!   More details         Andretta Registrations Open 15th to 21st February     To reconnect to your inner child at a beautiful hillside retreat with 14+ soulful individuals will make this a life-transforming experience. 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