Love...

LOVE, we ask, the repeating questions: What is it? What is true love? Can you find it? Who do you love? How can love be so hurtful? All of these inquiries strike us, when we are trying to grasp its essence, when we think we are separate from it. In a world that seems void of the essence of love with all that is happening around us, how can we be loving? Not in the name of the modern masking and commercial names of love. 

Love, we live advertising it, speaking of it in our conversations, act on it in our relationships, but what does love mean? As a word, the energy that it is and the state of it. 

Let's dive into this, by first, understanding its roots in language: 

Love – Depth/affection - old English meaning 

Latin – Libet (To desire/pleasing) - Sankrit – Lubhyati – to desire/care. THAT natural desire, not the conditioned desires for our endless wants.  Let’s not confuse this with the desire for physical things, as part of accumulation out of exclusion. 

While we know love in different definitions, caps and labels, kindly wonder: what does it really mean for you and to you? How do you relate to it? Not from the way you experienced it through your parents, society, ex relationships, movies and all the external references.  How do you connect to it? From you to you? 

I’d like to link love and consciousness together, not consciousness in terms of analytics, as that’s where we get confused – consciousness is awareness is mind is all.  

While love is to desire to merge, consciousness is to know; the truth of straight-knowledge – so, love and consciousness are interplayed in language. Love is the only truthful desire – to love and be loved. 

Rolling into awareness - linguistics: 

Awareness – knowledge and perception 

Older meaning/Germanic: To perceive 

Consciousness – State of awareness – Internal and universal knowledge. 

Latin – Conscius – Together to know – All knowledge together – the supreme 

Isn’t that beautiful? The supremeness and grandness within us. 

Thought and energy intertwined in the space of love, ruled by consciousness – God/Source/Brahman/The Universe. It speaks in love and acts in love – unity. Love is the magnet of all opposing nodes – and there’s always opposites/nodes in all that we see and experience in life.  

The power of space is the inexhaustibility of space itself. Love – what is love – space - Presence? To me love is all that encompasses us – space. When you start to see that all is within, in this space, and within this vast and nonending realm, polarity is of the same thread, you see how love contains the polarity within its unity. The balancing of all that exists.  Always here and forever now. 

Mind, consciousness, space, the source, love – It’s all within. Can you look outside of what is space? No. So, as love is our core, you really can’t be outside of it too. It’s only the unconscious thoughts that “think and feel” they’re not. 

Space has all the energy and information/knowledge too. That’s why Love is God and God is love. The source of all showers its awareness on us, for us to desire it in our hearts. Like the saying goes: Let go, let God. 

Love is the beginning of everything and there’s no ending, as all cycles don’t terminate – that's the glue of love. In love, you don’t need or want, you just are. When you have it, you know, that’s grace – you're just grateful for having this faculty of appreciation for all that is.  

While we look at desires as something somatic and unwarranted, how about the desire to live? The desire to be aware and awake, the desire to be, the desire to realize yourself? All the desires to fulfil you internally, not the desires to extract from the outside to complete you.  

To care for this desire, to live– to care, means to feel, to install empathy, to turn from a self that sees only itself – by separation, into altruism: a self that sees all as itself - oneness. To care despite the circumstances. No conditions, no restrictions, no formulas, no transactions. As you love from your heart, not preferentially from your analytical mind. 

You know that feeling, the desire to connect? It’s unexplainable, when it knocks on the heart space, to feel the affection, or to feel the deflection, it’s just an ineffable thing – it can’t be measured by analytics and the what-ifs. An example would be a common daily case: driving.  You’re met with rage and anger on the road, by somebody else’s own erratic behavior; that’s just them being them. But, because you respect your own peace and understand what your triggers are, you act, not re-act, from your own place, instead of matching that energy that is agitating your field.  You hold your space and go for a hug, a smile, or even ---(fill in the space)--- Whatever is needed to diffuse that situation; you just love your state of space/space of state. 

The saying love thy self, is to desire your intellect to merge with your emotional – to be unified, to remember, to know. You partner in life with many people for different purposes and desires. But, have you considered to partner with yourself for the only cause there is..?  What would that be? 

Some reference of the word desire relates to “await what the stars will bring” ... The mystery of it of all, do you love that? 

But, when the word is used only linguistically and transactionally, we forget that love has no conditions nor preferences. To love, is to be acquiescent. To accept. You can’t sell the concept of love to be loved – it's like breathing, you hold on to it, you choke. You hold on to love, you just lose it – love, is to be in-love. To remember.  We use the word, to advance our efforts, and that’s the manipulation of the word. 

There’s no love but, and I love until – the way you accept yourself, is the way you love the surroundings. To love yourself, this self – right here and now – with all your flaws, not the future self you want to be, or the self you want others to see in you. You for you.  

To remember love, I don’t want to say true love or authentic, as then there’s a fake one. What we see as fake, is the fakeness within us. There's only love – every person has a perspective of it out of experience. The source of all emotion there is, has the subjectivity in others’ experiences.  

Love – can you notice it – this mystery, in your own behavior. Take something as simple as boiling eggs.  I’ve noticed how peeling the shell off the egg, it could be frustrating, as you remove chunks of the egg itself – but, with slowness and absolute immersion in it – it starts to become an art! To be present with what you do, even if you don’t like it, you’re loving the process of it – that's the love of the discomfort – to be a champion of the unknown. Remember, all happens out of the present, so you’re always “in-love”... But, can you notice when you’re not..? 

To know love within, is to learn how to work and live with your body. The experiences of life teach us that, how to master our own emotions. Would a baseballer cut his hand because he didn’t throw that sweet curve ball? No, He will learn from his deviation and train the mind to overcome that obstacle – to see that target; again and again. To love it. Love permeates all and emanates all. The never-ending flowing stream or fountain. 

But, love can be tough too, to teach, love lets go to grow again. Look at nature, there’s like a natural way for the mother to leave the offsprings when they become adults, for them to learn to survive and create their own families? Does she not love them? She does, but she loves and respects the process of life – she understands that deeply within as an instinct. We tend to suppress our instincts for learnt habits and behaviors to be “newly civilized”, while civilization roots itself in the abundance of nature and not how we look like.  

I will bring up vulnerability here – the capacity be wounded and hurt.  You will lose what doesn’t serve when you love, it hurts, it’s painful, but the more you grow in that space, your heart will return to its natural state, as you are integrating all the painful clays around that space. Love has no shackles, it’s what we think about love that keeps us tethered to that ideology; however it was learnt. 

I’ve talked about space, consider this for an example about space: 

Within an atom, quantum physics reveals the more you focus on the matter, you see subtle/invisible energy. The electron and proton are swimming/dancing around the neutron in a vibrational manner. All so closely intact, but never colliding – one collision could split the whole atom apart, but no, that space that is holding it together to allow “free movement” is love – how much love can reach every inch of your body? 

What defeats love is chronic repression/resistance – starting with fear, doubt, prejudice, etc 

But, they are all spectrums of the same (the thread of awareness)– we will talk about fear in the next topics. 

What wrecks our truth is doubt and doubt has the ripples and reflections of anything that is it, and changes into not it, or if you want, add the un-to all the states that are your birth right.

Doubt is the untruthful part of us, but without doubt, how can we understand what’s true. To work with doubt, is to trust yourself to allow the truth to waver in. Un-loved states are the blockers of receiving. 

That's the way the truth and the answers are much “closer (to the heart)” than you think, as thinking far-fetches things as an illusion – that's the veil. 

Whatever has been projected to security, outside, needs constant expecting and mental check-ins to ensure that association is preserved. The most intimate situations show you that, the closest folks to you, exercise their projections and insecurities closer – the veil withers in intimacy, so the cruder parts of the self start to emerge . The people who love you the most, hurt you the most, as fear is there to protect – out of the preservation to protect, the actions tend to “hurt” 

Love sees, through all perspectives, through all the emotions, through all the turbulence, straight to the heart – straight to the soul. 

Take restlessness, or anxiety: states of energetic unrest – they are vying for love, but they mistake love for doing the something, outside of love, to keep on going – no rest, otherwise, we come to a state of the Unknown. When you pause, give all your attention to this state, look at it, rest your attention on your heart, love that moment, despite all its discomfort, you are giving love, to be received, you’ve knotted the cycle within you – look nowhere else, do nothing else, I am here – all for you.  

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Ending credits: 

• Because doubting and resisting is easier, believe and loving is harder. To truly emanate and embody that. Love plays it’s not, to give it away – the universal paradox. 
  

• Love is the holding, expanding everlasting. The togetherness.  
  

• Love isn’t a result of a chemical reaction, but the state that activates all the “loving” somatic reactions within you. 
  

• Love – lay it out all because YOU ARE that magnificence in life. Always moving, impermanent, what’s there to hold on to? Cling to nothing and be the fullest of love. You're all that. 
  

• Love – simply, is the seeing, the acceptance and the embodiment of the reality of what is. Because that’s the way it is, in all its aspects. Like a Universal allure: “Love makes the world go around”. 

From my heart to yours,  

Peace in and Peace out.