How do you define love? Is it adoration? compassion? romantic attraction? endearment? infatuation? lust?
The dictionary’s definition is, “an intense feeling of affection.” There are tons of synonyms for [love] in the thesaurus. It can be a state of being and it can be an action.
Even with all the definitions of love, there are really just 2 kinds of “Loves”:
- There is Spiritual Love – the kind of loving energy and intent that creation is born of (God, Religion, Spirituality)… like the mother’s love of her newborn. (wont get into this one much)
- And there is Emotional Love – the kind of relationships (which we’ll discuss here)
The 2nd kind of love, which most people know, is emotion based. That means its conditional… based on beliefs, perception, expectation. And its something that can be given and taken. It’s the only kind of love that really comes with hardship, cause it comes with expectations.
Emotional love is often temporary and only felt when expectations or conditions are met. It’s based on approval and individual rules that love is based on. Emotional love is rarely unconditional.
In relationships both people are always changing and evolving. A relationship isn’t the same as it was years, or even months, ago.
When love hurts it means there’s an important lesson to learn. And it always stems from the EGO.
These challenges always have a hidden lesson in them. However painful it is, look at it as a chance to grow and move on to higher understandings of yourself and life.
Hate is not the opposite of love, it’s the absence of love. The opposite of love is apathy or indifference.
Hate among strangers is either fear or anger. But hate among former friends is the reflection of some rule or condition that wasn’t met.
By understanding the pain you feel from emotional love gone bad, you can follow it to the cause of your rules – your beliefs. Did you feel your happiness depended on someone else? If so, remember that happiness is always an inside job.
The paradox is, you can’t expect to get unconditional love. Unconditional love is something to be given.
One of the best books I’ve read on spiritual love and the ego is THE NEW EARTH, by Eckhart Tolle.
It’s an amazing read that’ll change your life. Apparently, Oprah thinks so too!
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