Here is my limited and fragmented communication of what I remember ...
Throughout all of time and history we have explored Love. What is it? How does it manifest itself? Why do we seek it? Why do we feel so good when we feel Loved and so bad when we don't? Why do we get Love confused with other things such as sex or attachments? We explore Love through religion, philosophy, art, poetry, music, songs, writings of various types which includes all of the great contributions here on zaadz. Love is (thankfully) a major topic here on zaadz. Each of us see it and feel it in a unique way which leads to all the different interpretations and views of which is reflected in our writings, which express unique aspects of Love. I consider it highly unlikely that with our human limitations we are able to fully define, or put into words, what Love is, but each and every contribution has the possibility of helping us to expand our awareness and definition of Love.
I will use the form of representation "LOVE" to represent ALL or God or any other label you choose to represent that which you consider the ... Ultimate ... Supreme ... most Inclusive of all ... etc ... I do not consider a name as defining in itself ... for what ever we choose to call ALL does not change regardless of what we call ALL or how we define ALL.
I will use the form "Love" to represent that feeling that comes from ALL and is felt by us Individuals toward All. More inclusive than love
I will use "love" to represent the feeling which represents the flow of Love from us individuals out toward individuals. Least inclusive (Plus I mention how the word is often used otherwise, below)
I am in NO WAY assigning a more or less value to these different manifestations of Love (merely my meager human attempt to communicate a complicated matter). Each and every aspect of love is equally valuable and Beautiful.
I know we tend to use the word love in a Varity of ways and that leads to definition confusions. I will attempt to place a one extreme limit to the other on it here ... the word love used in it's most generic or lowest form is used to describe an attraction to something when we say "oh I just love that" and the "that" could be anyThing. We can feel an attraction toward or to many Things is that feeling really Love? We do feel weak attractions and strong attractions. Are we ever attracted to something we hate or that is harmful to us? The feeling of attraction is that which motivates or moves us into proximity with something so that we may experience it.
The expression "falling in love" is often just describing an initial attraction and once that attraction is gone if there is no Love the relationship is no longer pleasant. That feeling itself comes from the desire for experience regardless of Love being involved. Sometimes the attraction has more to do with sexual attraction which can be simply a physiological need (similar to hunger for food) and may or may not have Love involved to greater or lesser degrees. You hear a sound. You turn your head toward the sound (the sound attracted you) ... if the sound is pleasing you may want to hear it at a louder volume and hear it more often ... the experience is positive and you seek more ... if the sound is unpleasant you will want it to stop and we all stop that which we don't want by either removing ourselves from it or removing it from us. If we decide we must move to the source of the sound to get the sound to stop we are attracted to it in a negative way ... we seek it not to embrace and enjoy it but to end it.
We can be attracted to people as if they were Things rather than acknowledging their true nature. This is why some people feel Love for some but not for ALL. This is how people throughout earths history have been able to treat some as if they were less and undeserving by seeing them as less. This is usually veiled by the excuse that the "less" are considered a threat. Please note: we have and still continue to be a threat to each other so I am in no way saying that harm cannot occur especially I am not saying that it is unwise or wrong to keep oneself safe from harm. This conjuncture is were many problems occur. We forget who we and everyone is and then begin to identify them with their behaviors (which can be horrible ... totally unacceptable ... and need not be tolerated) BUT the person behind the behavior needs to be given just as much Love as ever even if they have to be isolated to some degree to maintain safety.
We as individuals are not ALL but we come from ALL and maintain direct connection to ALL. Each individual is equally significant and valuable; it is only us individuals that forget that and treat each other as something less at times. The more we focus on the individual aspect of who we are the more we have individual experiences (that is what we are here for). There is nothing wrong with individual experience. We can feel Love toward another and from another as individuals and that is fine, very good in fact. That is different from when we feel Love toward and for and from ALL. Love from ALL is always there but we are not focused on that when we are focused on individual Love.
[I go into more detail later on ... if details help you.]
First some commonly known and I think generally agreed upon truths about Love. Some of our earliest experiences center around feeling Loved or not. Feels good to be held close by someone who Loves you. We feel warm, safe, and important. We think of someone who Loves us as someone who knows, values, respects, enjoys, and finds comfort in, Us, and we in turn, know, value, respect, enjoy, and find comfort in them. You know they wish You no harm and they do you no harm. You wish them no harm and do no harm. Love manifests itself through behaviors and words which are respectful, kind, considerate, thoughtful, generous, comforting, encouraging, supportive, grateful, forgiving, allowing, accepting, embracing, and honest (to and about ALL). Do not interpret that as being allowing of harm.
LOVE as ALL. It is THE ultimate inclusion. Nothing (and I do mean NO Thing) left out. LOVE is THE source of ALL. LOVE is aware of ALL. LOVE has NO limits. There are (let's call them "Parts") "Parts" that make up ALL. LOVE is itself not a "Part", and can not be "Parts". LOVE is ALL when parts are altogether; a sum total. When any "Part" of Love manifest separately It is no longer Love. Love maintains a connection to and provides energy to "Parts" as Love allows "parts" the freedom (freewill) to manifest in any way a "Part" chooses. "Parts" are a means of manifesting Love as well as the factor which allows for experience. An individual is a "Part". A "Part" is not necessarily an individual.
"Parts" are limited in many ways and have a limited level of awareness. We are all "Parts" and we are made up of a team of many "Parts". Most of what we talk about, feel, and relate to in our lives are really more about "Parts". Our food, water, oxygen, etc... are all "Parts". Awareness of ALL shifts from ALL to a "Part". A "Part" may or may not be aware of it's self (thus self-aware). Regardless of the awareness of the "Part" it has experiences (even it's lack of awareness and that which leads to awareness is an experience) and that experience is valued by ALL but maybe not by All or all. (ALL always experiences ALL but is also able to experience all experiences that are occurring to all of It's "Parts" and even to all of it‘s "Parts", "Parts". When a "Part" is aware of not only itself but of something else which it is not it has become "other aware." Being "other aware" it can begin to explore something besides itself.
"Parts" at some point can decide to join with other "Parts". It is this Awareness of being a "Part" that gives birth to ... experience (as we know it). The more inclusive a "part" is the closer that "Part" (which is now teamed up with others "Parts") is to being LOVE. Yet, LOVE maintains connection to ALL's "Parts" and remains whole in this way (makes no difference how many "Parts" are manifesting individually at any time). All "Parts" are equally significant and each "Part" serves a function which is equally important and significant to ALL, (not necessarily important or significant to any other "Parts"). "Parts" may only be aware of other "Parts" in a limited fashion. It is only in Love we are again aware of All. These "Parts" can team up with limitless other "Parts" and form a more inclusive "Part." The more "Parts" that come together the more inclusive. There are the smallest of "Parts" and the largest of "Parts", there are "Parts" that team together to manifest a physical "Part." We are a "Part" as is an atom, rock, and a galaxy; a child, family, and society. "Parts" at some point are able to pick and choose what other "Parts" they team up with (which lends to such variety).
(Reminder, we ask all questions as a "Part" with extreme limitations of understanding the ALL and thus our answers are limited; only from the awareness of ALL do we know ALL and are able to break away from any limitation.)
Why? Why does LOVE manifest as it's own separate individual "Parts"? You and I right NOW are experiencing something and this experience effects us and then expands to effect ALL. Consider taking time to explore this.
The more we feel included (the closer we feel to ALL inclusion) the more we feel Love. The absolute worse feeling we can have is to feel excluded ... ignored ... unloved or unlovable ... LOVE never leaves us or is less available for us we merely focus our individual attention away from it and we then do not feel it as much ... Also we are surrounded by others who have not yet remembered ALL and may treat you as less and disconnect from you in some way. Those who are still engaged in harming others will still require separation to the degree needed to avoid harm. We have to learn to not harm (and learn to not fear). Our guide to LOVE is following that which we know will not harm us and we feel good and safe. As children we are sometimes born into families which are not loving. We are sometimes told we are treated in a harmful way because it is how you treat someone you love and the whole act of loving can get confusing. We survive and experience and we learn and we Remember as we so wish until we are ready for something else.
We can feel Love in varying depths (intensities, degrees, concentrations???) but the Love itself never varies what we feel has to do with how open or aware we are of the Love; source makes no difference. When we remove ourselves or our focus and forget the ALL we feel intense fear of separation and can become like a frightened wild animal trying just to survive full of anger and hate (cause we feel someone has wronged us). Indifference and intolerance for others also is motivated out of fear ... fear that we will be excluded from a specific group if we do not remain as they want us to be.
Let's consider the difference between Love and water. It's easy to think of the individual drops of water and what they are, what they provide, what power they have & lack, or how much they may effect anything versus a teaspoon, cup of, bucket of, river or lake of, ocean of ... All are made up of individual water molecules but join together to create something more inclusive. I think we can make a mistake if we think about Love in the same fashion. Because Love is not a physical thing. We do this type of thing as a way of better defining ourselves within our reality. It's easy to think of Love and water in a similar fashion due to them both being so important to us. As physical creatures we may have an easier time relating to the physical.
Let's consider our need for water. Water is essential to our physical life in multiple ways. Our physical body cannot exist without it. As individuals we both require water and crave it as a result. If we don't get enough we suffer if we get to much we suffer; we need a balance of it. When ever we suffer it is our cue to seek balance. If we go to get more water from another's source we risk depleting their source and creating an imbalance for them. This is so with water because it is a physical manifestation with physical limitations. Love IS NOT a physical thing, it has NO limitations.
Love itself does not break down into smaller components. It is here in ALL it's strength and power at all times. It is THE source which has no limits, no boundaries, no form in the way our dual and physical mind can comprehend. It cannot be lessened, weakened, diluted, in any way.
Can we give Love, show it, share it, demonstrate it, manifest it, feel it, in smaller amounts? Just like electricity, it's flow can be altered. To an individual person we can honor their individual aspects and focus our Love on them in an individual way or in a more general way and can give as much Love as we are capable of feeling ourselves or we can alter the flow (usually we do this in an unconscious manner) and give less that what we are able to feel. Think of how you felt as a young child when a parent or grandparent held you close. Think of how it felt when a stranger picked you up or gave you a hug. You felt a difference in the flow of Love for 2 reasons: 1. They only allowed what they were both capable of and were willing to share. 2. You could only receive what you were capable of and were not blocking off from out of fear of harm.
Love expressed through the physical is altered or the flow of Love is altered. This is necessary due to our physical limitations with this energy.
I feel or am more aware of the energy of Love that is limitless when I feel more connected to ALL, less connected physically. It is such a blissful and complete feeling one which our human words cannot well express and it is detached from fear and is limitless and fully inclusive. We each have equal access to this Love but are not all equally acclimated, developed, or able to for whatever reason maintain an awareness of LOVE. The Love I feel from and give to individuals varies to the degree that the flow is blocked due to fear or expectations, etc ... I sense that very much so, even from and to my husband who I know probably Loves me more than any other individual on this planet (The Love I feel toward him is less wavering than I feel toward other individuals). He is the most physically consistent person and is most affection and intimate with me. Also I trust him more than any individual due to knowing his intent would never be to harm me.
We only open up to and feel that which we are able to handle ... the energy can become overwhelming and frightening when we are unaware of what it is we are experiencing. And we know that we can be harmed (not from Love itself exactly although the energy in pure form is something we must acclimate ourselves to because it is not physical and remember physical has it's limitations) The harm can come from some people who are not connecting with the sharing of Love in mind but instead with the desire to gain something for themselves, from us, with little or no consideration as to how it effects us. Here's a very important thing to remember, all harm is from a disconnection. Disconnections can occur in the physical and in dual states but not at the LOVE level. When we remember that we truly cannot be excluded from LOVE (only excluded from the flow of Love from people) we can begin to let go of the fear of emotional harm and not care as much about the physical harm (well ... we must attend to physical as long as we wish to remain such and must keep from physical harm also). We can be harmed, physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, etc... only to the degree of which we allow it once we are aware of how it occurs and how we can regain our own power over it. (think of the fight scenes in Matrix)
We are all manifesting as individuals in a physical world. We disconnect to the degree we wish in order to fully explore and experience limitations (there are NO limitations in ALL) which are present in "individuals". Yet a part of us remains connected always so that we will eventually be ALL again or as desired. This is accomplished by an uncomfortable feeling which motivates us to act in a way that moves us to a different place (similar to how childbirth occurs). A place were we no longer feel uncomfortable because we are feeling the degree of connection to the fullest we can again and that process repeats as necessary until we are ALL ONE again and then we do whatever we so wish cause ALL is possible.
Until we remember that ALL deserve Love we only give Love to some. Can we "send" Love to those who are not physically present? Love is energy of the highest caliber once we learn how to flow with it we can send it wherever we wish while being respectful of those who are not open to it. How much we can feel depends on how open we are to it, aware of what it is, are relaxing and not blocking it's flow out of fear or of harm ... or other physical (or mental) limitations.
Remember? Allow the Love. We are Love.
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April 2009 
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