level: I am Love
By request.
Love
rejecting romantic advances
Request: When somebody has good intentions, but your are not feeling it. Leaves a bad aftertaste.
"You have to make love work" vs. "love just is and works"
Priority request.
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.
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.
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.
writer Heidi Priebe on love and grief (quote)
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