Philosophy and love - I

Philosophy has been a subject of great interest to me since my 'yester' years. Love in any form has effected/affected us all, being human beings with something coined as 'emotions'. It is amazing to find a root connection of almost every minute detail happening around us deeply grounded in philosophy in some form or the other.

Over the years, I have always pondered what groups the two terms symmetrically. This is my summation so far:

Ever since the inception of the universe, the earth and human beings in particular, various spiritual teachings have radiated unlimited, rather unconditional love from the very core from which life radiates. Every single day, we are faced with situations of crisis- natural, physical, emotional, authoritarianism and its attendant power struggles. Yet, beyond all these, lies within us, at least I think, the invisible energy of 'authentic' love to each other and the world around us.

As part of a cultural transformation happening all around us, representatives from different walks of life are experiencing a convergence of dramatically disturbing images. All in the cloud of unknown...Probability is a beautiful scientific wonder...

It is a reflection of our incompleteness which makes us think what love actually is and other people don't. We all feel we know how to love and at the same time become mastered by the passions of anger, pride, deceit and envy. We are self-satisfied in our terms of love and yet we cling to attributes of stinginess, vindictiveness and self-deadening. We claim we are honest when expressing our likelihood/love for someone and yet practice seductiveness and denial. We make high minded statements about enlightenment and still remain seemingly incapable of opening hearts out of what exactly we feel for the ones closest to us.

On a subliminal level of awareness, many carry wounds from having constricted forms of love from others. It becomes a mental challenge from the emotional patterning which might be irregularly shaped and rooted due to bad encounters. The need to be liked/loved remains probably one of the greatest unspoken, yet pressing dynamics throughout our live span. I would say extricating ourselves from this imbalance would be to a still higher and more importantly, comprehensive dimension of experience.

And we as triad along this path, we are moving backward in our egocentric selves and also moving forward simultaneously. We, slowly, but gradually, recondition ourselves from the protective mechanisms and barriers. Sometimes, we crystallize ourselves, sometimes we strengthen.

"Made to dream of flying,

So high!

Made to wake up crying,

I don't know why..

It remains love on Planet earth,

Waiting on the air for some re-birth,

Wish for what it is, it was worth..."

To be continued..