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November 2009 
Eternal Conundrum ~ What is Love?
Posted on Nov 2nd, 2009
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michele
michele
I should go back and check the blog list. I bet I've addressed this a half dozen times, maybe more!!! Today I was considering the words of Eckhart Tolle (who named him? Poor guy). I've been listening to a CD retreat tape based on The Power of Now.
According to Tolle, love is the space inbetween. Space consciousness, ya know, the gaps... like when words are written, the places inbetween the letters. Or, when words are spoken, the silence. Or in the existence of matter, the places where there in nothing there. Love.
That seems a lot more accurate to me than the Disney chick flick thing. But yet, it lacks the emotional passion that we all seem to connect with. Today, I'm calling that Disney emotion "attachment". Attachment as love is needy. It wants certain behaviors, certain actions. It requires something... presence, attention, devotion. It ebbs and it flows, back and forth, reduces and increases. It is something that is perceived to shift and change. People stop having attachment love for one another, and pain occurs. People think others do not love them, the attachment kind, yet more suffering.
But, as always, I will argue that love is Eternal. There is no ebb or flow. It is consistent. Exponential. Perhaps ever increasing. It is detached. Love is perceived in the spaces because everything else is not. : ) Or maybe, better said, love is not a perception at all... it is the state of BEing itself. Love is riding the ebb and flow. Love is the in the shift and change, everpresent, ever widening. Love requires nothing, because it is the actual state of nothingness.
It's definitely a conundrum. What is love?
According to Tolle, love is the space inbetween. Space consciousness, ya know, the gaps... like when words are written, the places inbetween the letters. Or, when words are spoken, the silence. Or in the existence of matter, the places where there in nothing there. Love.
That seems a lot more accurate to me than the Disney chick flick thing. But yet, it lacks the emotional passion that we all seem to connect with. Today, I'm calling that Disney emotion "attachment". Attachment as love is needy. It wants certain behaviors, certain actions. It requires something... presence, attention, devotion. It ebbs and it flows, back and forth, reduces and increases. It is something that is perceived to shift and change. People stop having attachment love for one another, and pain occurs. People think others do not love them, the attachment kind, yet more suffering.
But, as always, I will argue that love is Eternal. There is no ebb or flow. It is consistent. Exponential. Perhaps ever increasing. It is detached. Love is perceived in the spaces because everything else is not. : ) Or maybe, better said, love is not a perception at all... it is the state of BEing itself. Love is riding the ebb and flow. Love is the in the shift and change, everpresent, ever widening. Love requires nothing, because it is the actual state of nothingness.
It's definitely a conundrum. What is love?
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