Love :- Built on Scarcity or Abundance ?
By alokn99
@alokn99 (5717)
India
September 27, 2008 1:30am CST
Do you believe that that there is never enough love to go round ?
OR
That our essence is one of love and we have it in abundant supply.
If you believe the latter, then a another question.
If love is in abundance, "then why don't we experience love and happiness more often in our lives"?
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4 responses
@James72 (26790)
• Australia
29 Sep 08
I believe that there is definitely MORE than enough love to go around but it all comes down to our willingness to embrace it and gaining an understanding of what love actually is. Love is not just a word; it is an attitude and an active expression of many things to show someone that we feel it. We don't experience love and happiness more often in our lives because we are surrounded by a society that is too caught up in the non-emotional aspects of living. In a sense there are many of us that are on perpetual auto-pilot and do whatever we have to do to make it through life as comfortably as we possibly can. It's an unfortunate circumstance really because our emotions form the base foundations of who we are as people; and love is one of the most important emotions of all. Without love there is no understanding, no acceptance and no tolerance.
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@coffeechat (1961)
• New Zealand
27 Sep 08
Alokn99 - Let me respond with "The Hero Lies in you". This song by Mariah Carey (the lyrics can be found here http://www.lyrics007.com/Mariah%20Carey%20Lyrics/There's%20A%20Hero%20Lyrics.html) sort of celebrates inner strength in a weepy sort of way. But it does illustrate a key point:
The hero lies within. And it is up to us.
Each of us has the infinite capacity to be happy and conversely the capacity to be equally unhappy. And it is a choice we make for ourselves.
Sure, when you are told that a loved one has cancer and has six months to live, there appears to nothing to find happiness in. But then pause, there are the years of love that you have to celebrate and the six available months to optimise.
Desiderata - a poem about living inspires me. Here are the words of the poem with some explanations:
http://www.lifemagick.net/manifesting/desiderata/
My favourite part is:
[b][i]Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.[[/i]/b]
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@dpk262006 (58679)
• Delhi, India
29 Sep 08
Alok, to my mind that love cannot be treated lika a commidity, whose supply may be in abundance or otherwise. Love is kind of feeling and it is a kind of give and take emotion. It is difficult to measure love - it is to be realised in hearts of hearts and felt deep inside.
@alokn99 (5717)
• India
29 Sep 08
Dpk, I do agree with you that Love cannot be treated it like a commodity. The question is about how we relate to being loved or loving and in every sphere of life. This then depends on our individual feelings and experiences. If i could rephrase the question without using the economic terms then the question would be "do we feel that there isn't enough love or there is plenty of love and all we need to do is open our hearts to it".
Thanks
@alokn99 (5717)
• India
29 Sep 08
Dpk you have answered it to the point. There are those people who think that there is not enough love in this world. That is based on their experiences.
Then there are those like you who believe that there is a lot of it. We just need to open our hearts to it.
Thanks again
@dpk262006 (58679)
• Delhi, India
29 Sep 08
Alok! I posted my response in a hurry, somebody called me in between.......so I posted as it is.....
I am finding it difficult to answer even your re-pharased question - "do we feel that there isn't enough love or there is plenty of love and all we need to do is open our hearts to it".
I think we should be receptive, open hearted and optimistic .........about getting love and affection from others. I think there is no dearth of love.......all we need to do is to find out the right person and right opportunity. Again, at the cost of repeating I would say - it is a give and take relationship.........you only get 'love and affection', when you know how to shower it on others. You need to come forward to take the first step to get somebody's love and affection.
