We all have an innate desire to feel loved forever and ever...this is totally valid! I think it's what makes us tick. There is a knowledge deep within each of us that love exists and that it is truly all that you need...that it will make you happy forever and ever. And it's true! So then why aren't we all happy and in love all of the time? It is in our methods of finding love that we fail and find suffering. It is in our ignorance that we find it hard to separate love and desire, love and attachment, love and lust...Here's what to know about the best subject EVER!
L-O-V-E IS:
1. Different than attachment. Attachment brings fear because we expect some sort of outcome. Attachment can turn into love when fear is removed. If there is fear, there is no love. Period. If you are fearless, you are not able to attach and so you can have real love and no suffering.
2. Pure and selfless. Love is to give and not to get.
3. Different than desire. Desire is insatiable. It can never truly be fulfilled. Desire implies it is something you don't already have (quite different from love which is in us all) and that you must look externally for it. This search leads to suffering.
4. Infinite. It is never damaged and it never dries up.
5. Creative. It has the power to redeem, renew, transform.
6. Present in all conditions. It is the greatest wealth, the greatest peace, and it's yours NOW.
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