Just another thought...
How many times have you told someone ‘I love you’ or someone else has said the same thing and you experienced an instant blow of either the person not responding or you yourself going into a total state of shock to realize what you just heard? This conditioning of the mind has been done in a manner, which is more ready to accept something negative more gracefully than such a thing called love. The sarcasm, the tone, non-reciprocation attached to this wonderful expression, just amazes one. In life all that we are looking for is ‘Love’ and yet when someone does express, we just brush it aside and mock the supreme emotion that binds us all.
Ever thought that, since we live in a constant state of fear, to accept or give someone plain and simple ‘Love’ is such an uphill task. Whether it is parental, or friendly, or romantic there is always a checklist in place and those who meet the parameters are so called eligible to receive or give that love. Ever wondered, if that was the case how God saw us, we would’nt even be here to even experience this amazing human form of life?
Much has been said, written and hundreds of debates held on this subject and yet, none have actually or precisely been able to either convince themselves or others this powerful emotion called ‘Love’. In that case who am I to again take up some amount of web space to write about this subject when we all know, none of us actually know the meaning of this word and neither have we ever experienced it without any conditions attached to it.
On a physical level of existence, we can emote this quite differently, yet on a metaphysical level it is understood and experienced in totally different way. Those of you who have actually experienced ‘Love’ on a metaphysical level, will agree that it is a state of mind where there is nothing but complete detachment from every particle that exists in this universe, yet you find yourself filled with fragrances that you cannot define, joy you cannot describe and this feeling of goodness and pure gratitude to everything that is around you. There is no checklist to be verified and review required.
Let us erase these sentences like ‘unconditional love’, ‘not worthy of love’, ‘Are you serious? How can I love someone like you?’, ‘Prove it, if you love me’, ‘Someone like you can never be loved, unless…’, ’if you love your parents, or partner or spouse or children, then you need to…..’..etc..etc..etc. For erasing them, the core aspect is ‘Surrendering and letting go the fear’ and perhaps ‘smiling more often to yourself’.
Take the courage to give and receive love. Create your own definition to this word called ‘love’ and with that you see yourself smiling more often, sleeping better, energetic like you never experienced before, beautiful like a star and confident like supreme leader and yet childlike innocence and faith that is like Energizer battery ‘Never say die’...
Drop the checklist and open your hearts, as there is still much to do within your own self, before you start doing anything for anyone else. With your pre-conditioned mind of checklists, a self review perhaps will set the record straight how far have you actually reached in comprehending this subtle yet the most powerful emotion called ‘Love’.
Ever thought that, since we live in a constant state of fear, to accept or give someone plain and simple ‘Love’ is such an uphill task. Whether it is parental, or friendly, or romantic there is always a checklist in place and those who meet the parameters are so called eligible to receive or give that love. Ever wondered, if that was the case how God saw us, we would’nt even be here to even experience this amazing human form of life?
Much has been said, written and hundreds of debates held on this subject and yet, none have actually or precisely been able to either convince themselves or others this powerful emotion called ‘Love’. In that case who am I to again take up some amount of web space to write about this subject when we all know, none of us actually know the meaning of this word and neither have we ever experienced it without any conditions attached to it.
On a physical level of existence, we can emote this quite differently, yet on a metaphysical level it is understood and experienced in totally different way. Those of you who have actually experienced ‘Love’ on a metaphysical level, will agree that it is a state of mind where there is nothing but complete detachment from every particle that exists in this universe, yet you find yourself filled with fragrances that you cannot define, joy you cannot describe and this feeling of goodness and pure gratitude to everything that is around you. There is no checklist to be verified and review required.
Let us erase these sentences like ‘unconditional love’, ‘not worthy of love’, ‘Are you serious? How can I love someone like you?’, ‘Prove it, if you love me’, ‘Someone like you can never be loved, unless…’, ’if you love your parents, or partner or spouse or children, then you need to…..’..etc..etc..etc. For erasing them, the core aspect is ‘Surrendering and letting go the fear’ and perhaps ‘smiling more often to yourself’.
Take the courage to give and receive love. Create your own definition to this word called ‘love’ and with that you see yourself smiling more often, sleeping better, energetic like you never experienced before, beautiful like a star and confident like supreme leader and yet childlike innocence and faith that is like Energizer battery ‘Never say die’...
Drop the checklist and open your hearts, as there is still much to do within your own self, before you start doing anything for anyone else. With your pre-conditioned mind of checklists, a self review perhaps will set the record straight how far have you actually reached in comprehending this subtle yet the most powerful emotion called ‘Love’.
hmmmm it is interesting that we all \'define' Love in diff ways . If it was adefinition it would be precise and unchanging; however everyone defines love in his own way. only goes to prove , it may be too strong a word... to imply that LOVE has yet to be defined. If we take this assumption to be correct then the question is would we ever understand love enough to define it ?? Infact Do we actually need to Define LOVE considering that eac of us in his own defintion has managed to experience a part of it? would we ever experience complete love? does it really exist? how would we know even if we feel it?
ReplyDeletethe society has conditioned us to accept a lot of things as true inspite of there being no evidence to it. Love happens to be one of it in the sense that nobody knows what exactly it is but everybody as a society has accepted that certain parameters make love and an individual is to be judged for his capacity to give or receive love by these parameters. GOD is also one of these things created by the society.
Love it is said is the ultimate emotion.... but how do u measure emotion? if we don't know how can such astatement be made?
we use terms like parental love, romantic love, brotherly love, sisterly love. and then there is simple Love, unconditional love... are these things the same or is there a diff..? if yes what? if no why so many terms to describe the same thing? Just random thoughts
happiness always!!
sharath
Great thoughts..finally..someone has done some homework..Well..the social conditioning that has surely contributed in having so much variation on somthing as warm as 'Love'. Dropping the conditioning, will be one step to erase the multiple definitions and experiencing the emotion in forms one would want to.
ReplyDeleteyeah that is probably a step nearer to what is wanted to be achieved ....it be our wants that paopel us to condition ourselvess and the world around us as we deem fit....and when wefind others who propogate the same conditioning.....behold the SOCIETY. we drop it then do we fear we shall be no more than any other animal or beast in the jungle.
ReplyDeleteis it the fear which holds us back why so called witches are burnt and why siants are living in remote areas away from civilisation???