I hope that title caught your interest because I am really trying to increase the traffic on my Blog. I promise to deliver on it. I have plenty of insight on this subject to share with the world. The question at the end will be am I credible? I have heard people ask other people about their opinions about Love and Lust. We all do it...we ask everyone who will listen and then we attempt to glean the truth from the vast variety of opinions we have gathered. Very few of us will do any real research on the subject. Well, I AM one of the few. Over the course of many years, I have done extensive research about Love and Lust. I have read countless books by professionals and articles online. I have viewed Love and Lust from the Scientific perspective, attempting to quanitify it or discredit it. I have read classics of literature renowned for their thematic influence on the world's view of Love. I have studied poetry by more authors than I can possibly recall. To dig up the shear numbers of poems, books, articles and stories or clinical studies I have explored in formulating my strong ideas, would take me a month of Sundays. I will for the moment splurge and divulge my information with confidence as the expert I feel I have become.
Let me start by saying that I LOVE, LOVE. It is my favorite thing. I crave Love. I desire Love. I give Love. I want more Love. I want to be in Love with everyone and everything. I want to make Love. I Love the taste and feel of things and the smell of things. I Love the idea of other people being in Love. When I discovered the book that really changed me: The Secret, I was thrilled by the discovery of Love being the greatest and most effective power available to mankind. Just like it is written in the Bible, Love can conquer all things...cover over a multitude of sin and recreate who you are. Love can save you, heal you and forgive you. Love completes you in every way. I know a lot of people, who just like me, want to feel Loved and Completed by something or someone. Every person I know does. Any person who claims to not need love is a fake. When I became a pupil of "The Secret", I decided that my symbol as a reminder of the power of love, was a heart. My Wedding Planning Business Icon is interconnected hearts.
So how can you tell the difference between what you are Lusting for and Loving? Well to start with, Lust has no power. It is rooted in selfishness. It is fickle and unproductive. Any object for your affection that you do not truly Love, will not prosper. If you only Lust for it, you may eventually acquire it but it will not fully satisfy you or last very long. This applies to people AND things. These things could be business success, a home, a car...anything. But if you truly feel love and desire for something or someone, your passion will be based on something substantial and long-lasting. That "emotional" connection will remain and grow and deeper. Your Object of affection will thrill you even in the dullest moments. It will never disappear. If it is gone for a while, it will return. It will appear and reappear throughout the course of your life. It will feel like your attention is always drawn to it or something like it. When you feel that draw, you will be compelled to follow it and see where it leads. Do so cautiously because this could be the object you Lust for. Love never leaves...never goes away and never weakens. It deepens, widens and becomes more intense with the passage of time. That which you love will appear in your dreams, your ideas, your work and your activities.
Love makes you do noble things for it. Lust makes a fool out of you. When you truly Love something or someone, you desire to pursue it or them and you wish to possess it. The same is true for lusting something. You must learn to differentiate the two because without clarity on this, you will surely cause trouble for your life. Do not be fooled. That which you love you will care for too much to jeopardize. You will want what is best for it. If you Love your family, you will do what is best for them. If you love your home, you will take care of it and make it the best it can be. Now if what you love is a person, these things all apply and become much more significant. Clearly you must consider whether they want to be loved by you. If they in fact feel the same as you. It's tricky to distinguish. How can you tell? Bear in mind that if that person Loves you, the same rules need to apply. They cannot possess you. They must Love what it is that you need and want and what it is that makes you who you are. They must appreciate you to the point of being willing to let you go.
Most of these concepts are pretty self-explanatory. Most of us know this, right? We all struggle to have more Love in our lives. the best way to attain it, gain it and keep it is to give it...give it away! Give your Love freely and it will come back to you from the most unexpected sources. You will have no idea how or when but blessings of Love will just come to you. It will be your Kharmic payback for deciding to do things the Right Way...follow the Right Path. I long to hear your journey. Please share it with me. Feel free to comment on the blog or write to me personally if you wish. I Love to be inspired and hopefully I inspire you too. I am thinking of my friends, Loving them...and my family...especially my chidren. I wish you all the Greatest Loves of your Lives!
~Namaste~
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