Love is barely understood as a principle or an emotion.
At its highest, the experience of love would be altruistic; benevolent, selfless, concerned for the welfare of others; animal, human, planet. At its lowest, love is self-interpreted. It is attachment to something living, material or idea that is self-serving and in being self-serving, it is not altruistic. Love is most often dormant unless something brings it to the surface. Love is a condition that is often inspired. There is the love of the mother to her child, the love that springs from romance, the love of friendship, the love between siblings and the love of materialism. All of these are lower forms of love and the opposite is often shown in jealousy, scorn, hate, resentment and intolerance. But while the lowest affectations of love appear from what is self-serving, the higher propensities of love occur only when they are inspired and often when they are driven out of the self-centered lower mindset. The higher propensities of love are seen in acts of self-sacrifice; the one who rushes into a burning building to save a stranger’s life. Take the thousands of people who are taking to the streets during the world-wide pandemic to rescue abandoned animals. Not all of these people are vegan, yet love is in all of them; and the highest love prevailed in all of them when it was needed most. It is a sad commentary on the state of the human species that the highest love isn’t always inspired nor is it forth coming, but there is so much against love too. Our societies aren’t loving; our cultures and traditions are not loving either. The human world isn’t set up to be loving, it is set up to be profit making and only when a catastrophic event occurs that stops material progress is the human mind free from the money making wheel, and then desperation leads and inspiration follows. When men are rendered truly human, they return to their natural states, which is to say they are once again a part of nature and not apart from nature and their natural propensities come forward to love in higher altruistic ways. The spirit of man takes over when the lowest in man needs to be raised and this is as it should be. Because this is our true composition; we are spirit; and it is only because we abandon what is natural that we find ourselves brought to our knees in the first place. It is not so shocking when we find that nature is now turned against us when we have been turned against nature. We have started the war against nature. She is only responding in kind. She responds to human kind the way human kind has been responding to her. Lay down the thoughts that drive you to be at war among yourselves. Lay down the need and the desire to see an enemy. By seeking an enemy, you are the enemy. Seek the answer that heals the planet and you shall also heal yourself.
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