Love

exclusive love

Request: Defined as only loving your family or close friends, and maybe people who seem to have value to you. A way of being. All others are excluded and made into strangers. This seems instinctual, like a wolf perhaps, but many humans seem to do it.

running away from Love

Request: A pattern in behavior.

statement: the ego is incapable of love

Request: God, Reality, the Self is the source and essence of all love. Does the ego share at all in that love, or it it simply a veil over the love of God?

adopting pets from animal shelters or rescues

By request.

the field of self-love

Reverent, self-love aware of the divinity within God's creation: you.

statement: listening is love

It involves fully engaging with another person, showing them that their thoughts and feelings are valued and understood -- Brave AI.

soulmate, twin flame concepts

Soulmates are said to be souls who have met in other lifetimes. Twin flames are said to be souls who once existed in fusion.

love with attachment, possessiveness

Not actually love, obviously. By request.

Christmas Day

"a religious and cultural celebration by billions of people around the world" -- wikipedia.

statement: loving others is no substitute for loving yourself

Loving others is heart-based, while loving yourself is thymus-based. As the heart dimension is nested within the thymus dimension, loving others serves the highest good only in the context of loving yourself. (The highest good includes you!)

to love is to witness

Request: One of the flying fish from this morning's contemplation.

intimacy of the present "moment"

The feeling of profound connection and oneness of the Self in the "eternal now."

"your only responsibility is to love"

Let God handle the outcome.

Cupid's Poisoned Arrow: From Habit to Harmony in Sexual Relationships

by Marnia Robinson. "By focusing on generous pampering rather than self-stimulation, you can create a nourishing cocoon of comfort and safety…and deepen your connection through bonding-based intimacy."

“The ones that love us never really leave us”

Request: quote from Harry Potter, said by Sirius Black.