Guest guest Posted June 12, 2006 Report Share Posted June 12, 2006 It's very common to feel that love is a duty. To feel that you are solely responsible for feeling love. Love is situational, codependent, as much as fear, or any other emotion is. You might as well blame the company you keep, or the setting, or the weather for not feeling as much love as you think you ought to feel. Only when we abandon all blueprints as to how to feel and how to act act, can we truly be free, and allow ourselves to feel, unhindered, what we really feel. When we make love into a goal, an ideal, or a deity, then, we open a door through which pride, vanity, failure and guilt step in. Then, to compensate we project love into a cosmic force. That way, If humans don't love us enough, God, or the Self does, and we can keep that illusion going until our relatives, or our turns comes up to be crushed like a bug. It's easy to rationalize, to pretend that God is still loving when catastrophe strikes others, not so easy when it hits home. Deifying our emotions, and ideas only tightens the rope by which we hang. Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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