The Power of Love – a Spiritual Definition of Love
by WEBADMIN
The dictionary definition of love is “a profoundly tender, deep affection for another person.” This definition sounds benign at a glance but is, of course, conditional. The belief that some people deserve our love and others don’t is at the core of romantic love. The spiritual definition of love is an enormous departure from the Hollywood version. Spiritually, love is a state of being, a higher vibrational existence that one radiates regardless of whether anything is offered in return.
The consciousness state known as love has nothing to do with emotion. Love is a state of being and a higher vibrational reality. There is no need for reciprocation when one is love. When understood in this way, we can see why the few beings who have achieved this transcendent level of consciousness positively and permanently impact the entire world. Nothing can be taken away from love itself.
The dualistic personality seeks to be served through love, while in the higher consciousness levels love exists to serve rather than for self-interest. As love becomes spiritualized, alignment with Divinity is reflected more and more as a state of being. At lower levels of consciousness, what is perceived as love is a conditional feeling that is projected onto a subject who is then believed to be special. It is primarily associated with the mating instinct. By contrast, in the higher levels of spiritual consciousness, love is self-rewarding. The more one becomes love, the more one can love. This capacity is forever expanding and grows as the narcissistic mind/ego is surrendered to God as an act of personal will.
Because love is self-fulfilling, it needs nothing. For the person at the consciousness level of love, the world is benign. Due to the higher vibrational field of love, those in this energy realm radiate a positive vibration to all of life. Kindness, compassion, caring and other positive attitudes are expressed as a progressively more constant state until the level of unconditional love is reached. In the state of unconditional love, no one is unloveable and all judgement is released. It is realized that all of humanity’s difficulties are due to the mind and its narcissistic tendencies. Individual will becomes surrendered to Divine will, and the primary motivation becomes to benefit mankind.
Unconditional love is the primary goal of the original Christianity and serious spiritual devotees. It is the realm of saints and the highly evolved. While love requires the relinquishment of ego/mind and a surrender to the Divine, it should not be thought of as an impossible goal. In truth, each person is capable of love. It requires perseverance and personal will to surrender all positionalities in which one is “right” and justified in vindication. Instead one chooses moment by moment the path of kindness and compassion for all.
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