Roger

by Roger
(Pasadena)

'Love is probably one of the most painfully rich and yet exhilarating experiences for the human consciousness to have. To love someone and I mean, deeply love someone is to feel a bond and desire to be connected to someone that goes beyond any ability to express it in words. When you're not with that person it is pain, deep, longing pain as from an infinite abyss. When you're with that person, depending on the circumstances it is deep, longing pain from the lack of being able to express or share that love or it is pure, blissful emotional morphine. You feel no pain, you forget about time and nothing is important enough to get upset over. Everything is funny or irrelevant.

When you're in love, things don't stand out to you except what is essential. It's the first person you think of when you wake up and the last person when you go to sleep. If you have conversations with them in your head because you can already hear what they would say if they knew what you were thinking at that moment, you're in love. If you can "feel" them and their emotional ups and downs and can feel them thinking about you. You have a strong psychic bond with them and a deeply, profound spiritual connection.

Loving someone truly, is wanting the best for them, even if it means they can't be with you for whatever reason, i.e. they haven't sorted out their feelings about you and are on the fence, or afraid. If you love yourself, you will not put yourself into a painful, false relationship of "friendship" while they go back and forth emotionally.

Love is a beautiful and powerful force of the human heart and it can only grow stronger in those who surrender to it and let go of the painful lessons they've been taught in the past of what others "assume" love is. Love must be experienced by the individual personally and not be based upon others expectations and assumptions.

When you're in love or you love somebody, you just know. No questions, no doubts. When you're in pain, it means you're not listening to your heart, you're trying to fight it with reason and logic. Love has it's own logic as do emotions. The intellect is great for solving problems on a linear level. Love and emotions are completely non-linear and therefore go beyond the analytical self.

just my two cents!'