Thursday, September 8, 2011

What Is True Love? (A Spiritual Perspective)

Emotional love can flower into true love when the fire of emotions cools
down and is substituted by a wiser and more mature relationship. True love
needs a fresh and renewing atmosphere, without fears.

When you feel spiritually full, you feel flowing over with pleasure,
happiness, wellbeing, and that state helps you to accept the one whom you
love as they are, because from your fullness you give and share and you
don't need or expect anything from the other. While you need something that
you want the other to satisfy, you will have expectations and the fear that
those needs might not be satisfied, and you will get frustrated more easily.
When you feel like a being of peace, a being of love, a tranquil being, a
being that is spiritually full and satisfied, your relationship with others
is a relationship of sharing on a level on which fear is not generated. You
are not asking for or taking anything from the other. An elevated sharing of
love, of happiness, of knowledge, of wisdom takes place, in which you do not
generate a dependency on the other.

Attachments and dependencies, fears and insecurity, block our experience of
love, of peace, serenity, freedom, happiness. When you have a feeling of
love that takes you to a state of joy, to wholeness, but then you attach
yourself to the object of your love, be it a person, or a property,
automatically the feeling changes into fear: you fear to lose the object of
your love and, instead of feeling wholeness and enjoyment, you feel fear.
Over time that attachment turns into a dependency and you start to become
inwardly empty: that is, your energy level goes down.

Love in its purest form is a like a spring that pours forth for the benefit
of others. Learn the art of loving, being free and allowing to be. Pure,
true, love is an unconditional love that flows freely. Do not cling (hold on
to). Love does not cling.

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