What’s Love
Love is a very difficult word to define, perhaps because its reality is beyond time and space, and thus, our comprehension.
Love is perhaps more easily described by what it is not. Love is not fear, hurt, pain, jealousy, bitterness, hate, separateness, lust, attachment, aggressiveness, indifference, possessiveness, suppression - the list goes on.
Love can be perceived more easily through the effects that it creates. We cannot see wind but we can see its effects, such as the leaves moving, branches swaying or the sound of air rushing. We know wind exists by its various side effects. What then are the effects of love?
Love creates feelings of unity. We feel toward others as we feel towards ourselves. We are as interested in their welfare, happiness, success, health and emotional growth as much as we are about our own.
Love breeds understanding, compassion, forgiveness, happiness, excitement, peace, joy, fulfilment and a desire to be helpful in any way we can.
Love is the ability to identify with the others, to let go of our self-interest and personal needs enough to really hear and understand the others’ needs and interests.
Love means caring enough to sacrifice, when necessary, our own pleasures and desires when the others’ needs are obviously more important.
Love is the force that brings about unity and harmony. It is the ‘glue’ of the universe. It helps persons with different egos, desires and needs to overcome all those potentially repelling forces and unite.
Love needs not so much to be learnt or cultivated, but rather released or brought from within us to the surface. We are love. Our basic nature is love. However, our ignorance, fear and attachment have buried it so deeply within us that it is sometimes difficult to summon or express it.
Love creates happiness, fulfilment and the experience of our true self.
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