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originally posted by: reldra
There is only one thing I would argue with. I know what true love is and it mirrors most of what you say. However, as a female, leave me with my 'fluffy feelings' . I can have real love AND fluffy feelings, TYVM.
I mis-worded that. Males and females both may need fluffy feelings. This is not gender-based. But you should be clear if you are speaking of romantic true love, self true love or love of the universe true love.
originally posted by: Elementalist
originally posted by: reldra
There is only one thing I would argue with. I know what true love is and it mirrors most of what you say. However, as a female, leave me with my 'fluffy feelings' . I can have real love AND fluffy feelings, TYVM.
Female or male has nothing to do with neutrality, with all respect.
Love feels amazing and is beyond the other feelings. Maybe the word fluffy was bad choice of vocabulary,I apologize.
But I stand by my OP, as a human who has walked this earth plane with an "internal-whirling-energy" that is more profound then any other feeling or state I existed in so far.
Be well reldra
originally posted by: reldra
a reply to: reldra
I re-read your post 3x. Is it a love from within that, once you 'reach a certain state of being' and have 'whirling energies' linked to chakras that you have sometimes and sometimes do not have? You said at times you do not maintain this. This would be a love of self and all things and people. I do not think this is possible. No matter how much whirling energy you have. I also found it arrogant to state you have reached a very high state of being and this would confuse others. I understand what you say, I am not sure I buy it. Be well
originally posted by: bb23108
a reply to: Elementalist
Yes, there is a profound experience of love that has a focus in the heart chakra and that can transform the body-mind in terms of radiant energy moving more freely through it, and therefore even to others. This is part of one's psycho-physical transformation that is often neglected in not only today's consumer-oriented materialistic culture, but even in many of the new-age philosophies of non-dualism being sold these days. They never seem to speak of love.
I appreciate much of what you said, and I would never put a limit on true Love. It is unlimited Being, not a state and not even found by going within.
Reality is Love, Unity, absolute Consciousness - it is available where we stand, and is most intimate to us. We limit that Love with various states of the body-mind, whether high or low, internal or external - but true love is Unconditional, not a product of any seeking or state, neither internal nor external. Love is unqualified Being itself, what is already the case whether we recognize it or not.
Personally, I find that to love another is to be free with them, not to be dependent on their love in order for me to feel love. I could never burden someone I love to make me happy based on their loving me. Such dependency of basing one's happiness on being loved, is the root of many emotional problems in relationships.
One should always first learn love, and then perhaps fall in love with another having already learned love's secret.
You can only feel love as much as you can be love.
originally posted by: bb23108
Personally, I find that to love another is to be free with them, not to be dependent on their love in order for me to feel love. I could never burden someone I love to MAKE me happy based on their loving me.
Such dependency of basing one's happiness on being loved by another, is the root of many emotional problems in relationships. Both parties must already be love, and not depend on the other to constantly fulfill them at this core level of the being. How can another possibly do this and why would we expect them to, and even demand it from them? But that is what tends to happen when people don't already feel love at the core of their emotional-sexual being.
Optimally, one should first learn love, and then perhaps fall in love with another having already learned love's secret.
You can feel love and loved only as much as you can be love.
Why would one do that, especially since real emotional-sexual whole bodily embrace requires real love by both parties.
originally posted by: dffrntkndfnml
What is right for me, may not be for someone else.I like to imagine I can understand others pain and have some insight into why they are.The challenges I have had with others like that have payed out in ways that are difficult to put into words.Learning and showing an appreciation for what love they did have to share, fueled the desire to get to the root of their suffering. I needed to understand that, to forgive myself and be at peace with leaving my efforts to a higher power.Nobody wants to be left behind...