![]() Love becomes a self-sufficient state of fulfillment. Relationships involve no struggle or contending needs and wants. Pure compassion is possible now and a sense of belonging to the human family. No longer do you have a personal stake in the people you love. This is more than a feeling you've tapped into a universal aspect of Being. You feel that it emerges from a spiritual source inside yourself. ![]() The words that apply to this love include the following: idealistic, calm, unselfish, giving, empathic, forgiving and accepting.Įnd: When all limitations are left behind, love becomes unconditional. Relationships involve mutual appreciation there are fewer conflicts between two defensive personalities. Your awareness expands, and you feel less insecure. Such love begins to be less personal and attached. You can love someone else without needing anything from him or her. You feel that love can be a healing force that binds everyone. Middle: When you aspire to a higher kind of love, ego and neediness begin to count for much less. The words that apply to this love include the following: passion, attachment, dependency, merging, romance, mutual need, liking and compatibility. Relationships involve a constant negotiation between what you want and what your partner wants. You love others, for the most part, according to how much they love you or appeal to your sense of romance, sexuality and compatibility. ![]() You feel insecure about being lovable, but your ego is there to boost you (or not). Let me describe each a little to give you an idea of how the path unfolds.īeginning: You see yourself as wanting and needing love, usually more than you are receiving. ![]() There is a path to unconditional love, as with any spiritual aspiration, and on this path there is a beginning, middle and end. In order to expand the love you experience now into unconditional love, you need to involve a spiritual element. Looking in the mirror, all of us see too many flaws and remember too many past wounds and failings to love ourselves without also putting a limit on that love. ![]() But most of us doubt that love without reservation, love completely forgiving and accepting, exists in our everyday lives. A mother loves her newborn child without reservation, and romantic love, in its first stages of infatuation, can make the beloved seem perfect. ![]()
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