About Love
True love , the love that I wrote about the past two weeks, the love that is right here , the love that simply is what pure consciousness is, is obviously not personal love. Personal love is a form of attachment, basically for the survival of the human animal, no matter what ego does with it to replace pure love. It is not wrong or bad, it is frankly inevitable for a person. But it is not true love, which is also called cosmic , universal , unconditional , or transcendent love to distinguish it from personal love. The reason for the confusion is both experiences cause responses in the brain that make the body feel “good” in a certain way that we label love . This love is less an emotional feeling than a perception, a way of seeing. Sometimes it inspires subtle nice feelings, occasionally it comes with powerful feelings of joy. Because these feelings are only an effect, it makes no sense to pursue...