Being In Love

Being In Love

from: www.higherawareness.com

When you love someone you should never try to give reasons why you love them. Whenever you explain your love you most likely make it conditional – conditional on the continuing presence of whatever those reasons are.

Love can never be explained. True love is not a concept. It is not even rational. Soul love is a state of being one with another. It is unconditional. In this state of love you live and die for another as you would for yourself. You cannot explain or justify that.

At a soul level – if not at a mental level – you know why you are together with another person. You need to trust that and allow that knowing to manifest in purposeful growth or service with them. Mentalizing in any number of ways – explaining, justifying, defending, rationalizing, analyzing – creates distance where union was present. Love is of the heart and contains the intelligence and understanding of the heart rather than of the mind. This intelligence is not separative, as is the mental intelligence, but unitive, and therefore of the soul.

Love is not a verb. You do not love. You are in love or are not in love. When you are in love you are literally in its presence as it is in you. Feeling grateful and expressing gratitude for being embraced by love keeps it alive and nourished. This gratitude must then overflow into expressions of support, understanding, comforting and compassion toward others who are in real need. Selfish gratitude depletes love. Generosity feeds it. Unconditional love is soul to soul contact that fully accepts the limitations of oneself and the other without judgment and with compassion.

To be in Love is the greatest privilege any human being can experience. To share that state of being with another is the greatest gift we can give.

Exercises:
In a meditative, reflective state, take into your heart, one by one, the important people in your life, and experience the love you share, expressing deep gratitude for each.

I understand the logic presented in this article. When I think of my love for my sons, or the love I felt for my parents, it is not based on their qualities. It is – just because.

I can list attributes that I admire and cherish in those that I love, but I don’t love them BECAUSE of those qualities or characteristics.

Possibly love is intuitive. Perhaps we don’t have control over who or why we love.

I know that I FEEL a certain way toward those that I love. I want to help them unconditionally. They make me feel good and safe and worthy and loved.

I absolutely agree that being in love “is the greatest privilege any human being can experience.”

And when romantic love is perfect, it is when you are in love with another who is in love with you. That is the greatest gift God can give us! It makes us want to give totally to that person. It also makes me want to be the best person I can be for her and to her. Whenever I can, I want to hold her hand, and when we sleep, I want to feel her body against mine, whether I am holding her or she is holding me. That is as much making love as the act of sex itself, and it lasts all night long!

Sex with that person is TRULY an expression of love. And when you finally experience this, you realize that THIS is the true meaning of sex – to be one with each other in body and soul. You get as much pleasure from giving as from receiving. It is total communion – as much a spiritual union as a physical one. In our human existence, it just doesn’t get any better!

Love (especially mutual love!) is the ultimate human experience.

I am VERY blessed!