DO YOU REALLY KNOW WHAT LOVE IS?
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The very openness which is necessary to experience love, can also make one feel extremely vulnerable. This gives rise to the fear of being exploited or cheated by the other person. This wrong conditioning about love becomes a big obstacle to experiencing love. If someone strongly believes that his or her love will end in pain, they will see that it will end in pain. They will be waiting for it to end in pain.
Their own cognition of people and
their own selves will cause them to
attract situations which will go on
strengthening their wrong beliefs about
love.
This is because it is human nature to
want to make one's beliefs become a
reality, otherwise one would not feel
comfortable. That is the reason why
conditionings about love, about life,
need to be removed before one can
experience pure love directly.
THE RIGHT
UNDERSTANDING
ABOUT LOVE WILL HELP
TO GO WITH THE
FLOW OF LOVE AND
EXPERIENCE REAL LOVE.
THE WAY TO LOOK AT
LOVE iS,
When love happens, one should simply be in love without worrying about where it will lead, or whether one will be exploited or betrayed by the other person. Only then will one be able to experience love as the transcendental and transformational experience it really is.
LOVE iS THE BEST
STRATEGY FOR LiFE
Take the responsibility for love. That is where a relationship starts. Do not say 'I love you' to anybody unless you are ready to take the responsibility to fulfil their expectations about you, without bothering whether they are ready to fulfil your expectations or not.
Even if others' expectations from you is limiting you or them, you need to expand, stretch yourself to fulfil them first. Then make them understand that they need to expand; not before that. Only then they will understand their inauthenticity. Others are ready to listen about their inauthenticity from you only when you first prove that you are authentic.
The energy which you use to defend yourself from others and the energy that you need to stretch yourself to others' expectations, both are one and the same. You need less energy to stretch yourself to fulfil others' expectation than constantly defending yourself from others. Even a glimpse of love makes you expand yourself for more and more love. The best strategy plan for your life is the decision to love and build relationships!
