Love exists in both the physical and the spiritual domain. Which is why our heart and mind often bicker back and forth about what is real and what is hidden in the soul. Love can drive us mad and love can set us free. Love is what we forever want and something we don’t always feel like we need. But all we need is Love, if only from within, from time to time. The only thing Love should ever possess is our self-awareness.
Love is a tragedy in itself. Love contains an eternal tragic element that is connected with death. I mean this in the metaphoric sense that a broken heart digs with a shoveled similarity until it finds itself suffocated six feet under. But I haven’t died as far as I know. So how can I compare the two? I’ve always said that if my heart is beating, it ain’t broke. This is truer than most believe. It is only in the deepest depth of love when the obstacles of physicality are no longer a make believe barrier that blocks the spirit of unconditional love.
In the tragedy of natural or physical love, we begin to see the element of hostility unveil itself in the depths of this type of love. Too often people are afraid to fully open their hearts out of wrong instincts that are accompanied by false fears and/or beliefs. This is what prevents the possibility of true intercommunion.
But it is important throughout life to take the time to look within you and become one with yourself. This is done by falling head over heels in love again with who you are and what you aspire to be. The soul then starts to seek the stability of a spiritual awareness that thrives in the absence of physical love. This is deemed necessary to heal from tragedies of loves’ past and to reevaluate our internal skillset and what it takes to truly love our self again. If one does not come to love their own self with wholeness, they will never be able to love another soul in the unconditional sense.
Man is poisoned by primitive fears of loneliness and liberating one’s self from this fear proves to be an honest and uplifting task. It brings not only joy—but also new tragedy. Welcome to the tragedy of detachable personality. You see every time our heart is broken, it could be considered symbolic of death. We crumble, breakdown, and tear apart until all layers of illusion are burned away. All that we find left of ourselves is the truth of who and what we really are. It is up to you whether or not you like that version of yourself. If you don’t like what you see, then change it. This is the only way to fully heal and step away from the shadow of suffering.
It is physical love that desires personality. Therefore physical love desires division. In this division our spirit and soul detach from the personality of the ego. We begin to find out more about ourselves the further we hitchhike along the highway of spiritual goodness. We begin to contemplate the value of our self-worth. In doing this we start to lose sight of the mirage of failure that we see within ourselves. More important, we start to see what it is we love about ourselves. And this is what unconditional love is all about. If you can’t love yourself unconditionally, you will never know the true meaning of unconditional love.
When we love ourselves unconditionally, all that is supreme begins to support the foundation of Love. This is when Love becomes what God intended it to be. We then walk towards the light of death without worrying about our self-placed value. Instead we worry more about stabilizing the realities of life and mystical love for those we care about and for the generations to come. Please forgive me but it’s about to get a little deep in here.
You see love cannot be just a means to the ends of salvation and redemption. Love is the creation of a new life. Love is not a conceptual spirit. For it cannot be blind to the existing personality as a whole. Love must embrace the spirit, the soul, and the ego. And be the foundational sanctuary for the multitude of entities within us. If the source of spirit is abstract and isolates itself from the soul, the soul cannot give rise to love for a living being. This is when the ego makes an appearance as a false being looking desperately for physical love—all the while hiding with clever intent amongst the shade of lust.
True love means the descent of the spirit into the body and soul. The nature of spiritual love must bring light and wholeness into the life of a soul. This is what gives meaning and connection to everything. Without the spiritual principle of love, the life of the soul shatters into disconnected and meaningless experiences. The self-absorbed persona of love then vanishes into the void of perpetual heartbreak.
From here the nature of physical love plays hide and seek with the spirit of love. Physical love then becomes abstract—fantasizing to be spiritual—while ignoring the soul altogether. This is not Love at all, neither physical nor spiritual. It is a vicious cycle that the Ego thrives within its repetitive sense of toxicity. This is nothing more than love of an idea and not love for a living being. Love then becomes idolatry and loses its truest depth to that of illusion. It is easy nowadays for us to all fall in love with the idea of love.
The idea of love makes it easier for us to project what we expect of love upon another being. The idea of love liberates us from fighting Love’s eternal tug o’ war within us. But I must mind you—this is a battle that cannot go unchallenged. It must be fought and you must come out loving yourself more than you love any other. Not to say that you should always love yourself more than others, but in order to fully love, you must first love yourself. Then that love will trickle down and water the seeds of love planted all around you. If the war within goes neglected the idea of love swells into a fantasy. It will become one that you may never be able to escape with reality in tow.
It is when we turn and face the ever-lasting war within ourselves that the truth of Love starts to surround all that we see. Once you look Love in the eye, everything you see looks to be layered in spirituality. Then the physical aspects of Love give way to a more spiritual stance in life and as to what the shape of true Love really is. It is when we go to war within the dualistic nature of ourselves that the spirit and soul team up to squander the ego—with its illusory demeanor—once and for all. This is when we finally break free from the chains of selfish desire.
It is human nature to love physically instead of spiritually. The physicality of love is fragmentary, mixed with a passionate desire that distorts the true meaning of love. Physical love often prevents us from seeing another’s personality as a whole. Instead we direct our perception upon the other’s fragmentary pieces, and offer our own sound advice on how they should put their own puzzle back together. This is of course done without any sort of collective bargaining agreement and the puzzle within remains incomplete.
This is why it is important to put your own inner puzzle together before you allow anyone the chance to do it for you. There isn’t a single soul out there that can piece your puzzle together except for yourself and God. And once you begin to see the truth in this, you will find your puzzle being pieced together with an inner peace you thought had long been lost in the infinite fray beneath the couch cushion.
Physical love is impotent because it is unenlightened and partial, spoiled by selfish ways and bound by the strivings that bind with the lust of Ego. Physical love is tainted by a jealousy that positions love in the realm of idolatry. This is where the idea of love carries more clout than the Spirit of love. But it is true, Love is more than a feeling. It is more than an experience. It is the manifested presence of God in your heart. For love is the fruit of the Spirit.
Spiritual love is not meant to consume physical love in its entirety, but to transform, enlighten, and strengthen it with a transcendent force that is relative to unique wholeness and to the meaning of that which is unconditional love. Spiritual love is a seed planted within you by you. It is a seed planted alone, and the fruit only grows by watering the seed with faith. For it is the fruit of the Holy Spirit that describe to us what true Love really is.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep stride with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
Galatians 5 : 22-26
You see God created us all in His image. This means we are created to love. We are created to need love and more important to give love. We are all connected with Love, tied by the thread of God’s Love for all of us. As the world stands today, a lot of people do not know what true Love is. As society becomes more focused upon external distractions, love is being developed as a distorted physical feeling, piling up like counterfeit debt upon the lost soul.
My question is how do we transition this upon the facet of the future. We can start by teaching this to our children. Because let’s be frank, our generation is pretty much past the point of f*cked. It’s our children that we must plant this spiritual seed of love within. Even if you do not fully believe, it would be wise to plant the seed of God and Love in your child because once the seed starts to grow within them, it is only going to grow within you as well, because you are a part of the Tree Of Life. We will dive deeper in the depths of this problem down the road.
If there is only one thing you take away from this article, let it be this. When you see that love surrounds us, it thrives in us, because it is God that lives within each and every one of us. When you see that the grace of God is love, you will finally experience true Love, for you are feeling the presence of God’s glory. God is love and God is spirit, so therefore the Spirit of Love exists in each and every one of us.
-BeLove
