All of Love
Love is the simplest thing in the world yet, the hardest to understand for it is unbounded, universal, timeless. It is so simple it pervades all, the building blocks of life itself are bound by it. It is the thread that runs through all things, everywhere at all times.
How can something so large be grasped by a limited mind, how can one possibly think that it can understand what it can be? A limited mind must instead box, label and limit it to be absorbable into its folds. It cannot let it be for to do so means to accept the unknowable for what it is.
Love has been changed to be possessive, you love me, I love you but how can the unlimited have an end, how can one fall out of what is always there? That is not love, that is conditional.
I will love you as long as you act the way I expect from you, the way I want you to, the way that makes me feel good about myself. Do not change, for change is unacceptable to me, change is unlovable.
Conditions met or unmet do not shift love as it is unmovable for it moves with all movement. There is no distinction between it and anything else, it cannot be separated, dissected or destroyed no matter the attempts. It is not a concept of the mind, it is the condition of reality itself. Not believing changes nothing, there is no choice in the matter, no matter how one thinks or feels.
Does this go against your concepts of love? Did you think that your true love was yours? Did you realise that your understanding was equivalent to hoarding fool's gold believing yourself to be wealthy?
Most probably you believe me to be wrong and you to be right. You will proclaim I know love! yet feel cold and empty inside. That feeling is not reality, that is the construction of your mind, a veil of illusion and delusion that hides what is true from sight. A lie you tell yourself for you fear the endless expanse that is laid out in front of you. You embrace the ground you stand on instead of choosing to fly, swim and run free.
So many suffering at their own hands all because they are unwilling to let go of their beliefs, release the expectations they have of how they know it should be. The truth does not care for belief, it is not mutable, it is singular, constant, there is no other version of truth. This is hard to come to terms with, especially when what you believe to be true is not what you experience.
You think that the world is wrong, that life made the mistake. There is no mistake in reality for a mistake would indicate choice, but these options do not exist. There is truth and there is nothing. But nothing does not exist except in concept for there is always something, even if it appears to be a void, a vacuum where nothing resides.
Around and around in circles of beliefs, shifting and changing as the tides come and go. Each person, each group, each generation, each civilisation thinking that they have got it worked out at last, that they finally know. They all think they have found love and captured it for their own pleasure.
Love cannot be captured for it is both the butterfly and the net, the spider and the jar. What they think they hold is only a drop of the reality so big it is all that it can be, all that can ever be. To understand is to know all there is to know.
Are these concepts hard to grasp? Why so? Who do you think you are talking to here?
I am but a mirror. No more or less than a reflection of you.
Taraz
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Sounds like the Force from Star Wars.
Or the Force sounds like it :)
There is a lot of spiritual current through Star Wars.
In all seriousness, love belongs squarely in the domain of social animals. Things like protons, rocks, flies, water or trees have no love. The kind of thought processes you spelled out in the above are triggered by spiritual experiences which humans are capable of. We have circuitry for empathy in our brains. When those neurons are firing away at rate much higher than normal, you get spiritual experiences, a sense of a mystical union between the universe and everything. Spirituality like that is also the driving force behind our sense of universal morality.
Every founder of a major religion was influenced by an altered state of consciousness of one kind or another. It is evident in some writings of even the founder of Islam that he must have experienced something like that despite the fact that he was warlord during the latter part of his life, which his later teachings reflect.
Can you share what inspired you to write this post? It's so different from the previous one.
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Mood. It is actually a rework of an older post but in general, I can write quite differently toned posts close together as I tend to process my thoughts/ feelings through them. So a bad mood can evaporate and a good mood take its place. This can happen within one post from start to finish too.
As for the topic, while not religious, I am agnostic on many aspects of spiritual life and regardless of God or no God, I try to live the best I can and that requires examination of possibility. When it comes to love in this sense here, it is not the romantic side, it is the thing that runs through all existence and all its forms consistently.
Love is like energy then... So glad you are using this form of self-expression as a therapy too. Often it comes out as a therapy for others as well.
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Energy is the only thing that can't be created or destroyed, but changes form to create all that is. That sounds pretty God-like doesn't it?
It is the best therapy I have found. I hardly ever use heroin now :D Jokes aside, I wonder if it would be an effective therapy for addictions.
It would be quite effective therapy for addictions if an addict would be honest about their addictions and share them with the world.
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From what I understand, Switzerland has had good success with legalizing it, giving it for free but making sure the people have social connections with real people. Most have stopped using once they have friends and none on the program have ever OD'd.
I will have to look more into it, but that is what I heard. I would say that writing would be a great supplement for the program.
You have inspired me to write a post about it.
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Yeah, maybe, but how many also suffer because they do give up their own beliefs, desires and expectations and accept something they shouldn't? How many settle for 'love'?
I don't think love should mean you put up with something you wouldn't normally put up with, with something that harms you emotionally and hinders your emotional growth... A lot of people do, though. many accept relationships they are unhappy with because they feel guilty about leaving, they feel they must. But why? Why should you stay in something that brings you no happiness or enjoyment?
I've heard this 'you're hurt because of your own expectations' thing before and while I do agree with it, I also think it's impossible to not have expectations. It s a convenient excuse to pull out at the right time, but everyone has expectations. For example, in your post, the person urging the other to let go of expectations expects them to do so, and is unhappy since the other person isn't letting go. Same thing, if you ask me...
Anyway, interesting, though grim post.
they just pick up different beliefs though, don't they? Having a belief or taking on a new belief still has nothing to do with the truth of much.
I don't see romantic relationships as "true (truth) love" as they are always conditional in many ways.
Perhaps it is because of this that humans can't know true love?
Reflection of you. Maybe the person doing the urging is the self asking to investigate again, to understand better. To stop getting hurt.
I think it's impossible for any love, except for that of a parent, to be unconditional. We all have conditions and expectations from partners and friends. It's the way we work...So I guess it really depends on what you mean by true love, you know?
Maybe, but I guess only I can know that, or you know, whoever has the mistaken expectations.
But I believe it's up to each and every one of us to figure out what we want to do and fuck up accordingly. If I (the expectations person, not me as in me) secretly do want to change my expectations and beliefs and accept the other as they are, then either I figure it out or I don't. I hold on to those expectations and suffer accordingly.
Or maybe I don't want to change them, you know?
And yeah, I see how it can be the self asking, it happens. But the other person, the one who has changed...well, they're kinda expecting the same thing, aren't they? Why can't you accept who I am now?
It's a continuous blame game, you know? It's my fault for being stubborn or it's his fault for having changed and I think both have equally good reasons for blaming the other..
Oddly you are. We all are. But i feel like circumstances will always be different even in how we translate love. I have realized diversity in humans touches even on our deepest emotions as love though I agree with most of your thoughts.
The translation is never the thing. Words are limited, always bound and imperfect in the way they are delivered and received. Love cares little for such limitation.