'Love' Articles
A broken heart is crumpled, shrivelled. It changes even if you never shut your heart out, and it isn’t really the same each time it happens. What is held in awareness is empowered. What is shoved out of awareness withers.
There is loving someone, and there is “falling in love”. They aren’t contrary, and neither are they identical. I would offer that giving and receiving had not be independent things. If you give your heart you aren’t loosing it, but immersing your awareness in a process that permeates the world anyway. You are just letting it be personal. In the eastern disciplines you give and receive chi. Which is seen as the essence of your very being.
Unconditional love is the willingness to allow those we care about to be exactly as they are. “Emo” is a passive defiance of a culture that makes passion taboo. It has manifested repeatedly in anything after the hippy movement. It’s a collective counter spirit. Emo is its current stage, and it’s the strangeness that can reveal the lie of todays culture if anyone was paying any attention.
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” Morrie Schwartz
Force of Love
The subject is love, and I will be attempting to discuss love in a broad sense. There is a principle in nature, and by nature I don’t mean the conventional sense, but nature as the primal essence from which evident things emanate. The principle seems to be a healing/balancing force. As a matter of general balance, death does not seem to be the dominant force. Death seems to exist only complimentarily to a deeper edict in the great life of which we are all a part. This principle, which I will name love, seems to extend beyond any real measure… Seek More
Love Is
Love being relational raises a question. Is there love in ‘oneness’? As is most commonly defined, no. We originate in seeming duality as a manifestation of love. Love can be said to be the clear and aware engagement of the life/light itself. The will of the divine and of all life before any discord, is love. A child’s will is love. The desire of a newborn to be held is love. If nurtured, the desire of the toddler to explore and return to the mother is also love. It’s a natural order. Love is our most natural state of being? Yes,… Seek More
Way to Love
Being alone, as I understand it, is often a production of our thoughts making us think we’re alone? Yes, I agree, but it’s not an original thought. It’s an afterthought that arises from the series of expectations we are taught, and seems true in that system of thinking, though it is in no way factually true. Of that I have no doubt, but until we know it in ourselves, we remain with it. It can fool us as well? People are heavily invested in consensus, and think that the consensus is the way to love. That only by those rules… Seek More
Principle of Love
I mean to discuss love, not as a personal feeling so much, but as an aspect of the world and its function. It’s a very pervasive principle, but as most people know it, it seems to be as much a source of grief as of support in this life. I will offer that the idea of love as a source of grief is confusing, and basically untrue. What is love that it is so very important? Our young can die from the lack of it, our adults will kill for it, and even our spiritual leaders have supposedly died for it.… Seek More
Lovers By Nature
We are all lovers by nature, but allow circumstances to taint our ability to give. We think of self as unworthy, but there is no unity outside of that. The false self is the self we are taught, as opposed to what we are without being shown a role. What we are at our inner natures (for some schools the “Buddha mind”) is love. There is an arising that manifests beyond the concept of separation, and there is no implicit opposition between mother and child when the baby discovers the idea of “me”. Man was made in the image of… Seek More
The Center Holds
Your mind comes from the same source as anything you will accept as mind comes from. Minds existed before your personal mind existed, and will after. Mind, like love, is an aspect of existence that we did not create, that we live with and in. Mind is observed to exist, and it exists despite the presence or absence of any single observer. Love drives observation, it does not drive judgement. When an infant first regards someone not their mother and their attention lingers, they do not linger in that way out of fear, but out of love. It’s something that… Seek More
