Love, consciousness, and the search for love
By emptychair
@innertalks (23742)
Australia
January 31, 2021 2:00am CST
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
A Course in Miracles, a metaphysical book, written from a Christian angle.
Actually, l would say that the opposite of this is more true.
If we seek love first, all of our barriers to love, or to anything else, will naturally then drop away, without our ever needing even to try to find these barriers.
"Consciousness can only observe what undergoes change. 'That' which is eternal cannot be observed by consciousness or known by it. Unless you meditate on this point, the puzzle will not be solved.”
Nisargadatta Marahaj, (1897 to 1981), an Indian spiritual guru.
So, this would say that consciousness can not find love, as love is eternal.
We should seek love from our heart, not from our minds.
Searching for barriers with our minds then is mostly just a waste of time.
We just put up more barriers, the barrier of consciousness itself.
Yes, love can create consciousness in us so that we might have some understanding of love, but consciousness can never create love, nor find it, by searching for it on its own.
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Searching for love with our mind, only finds for us a hollow form of love, not a full love.
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@innertalks (23742)
• Australia
31 Jan 21
Yes, that's putting it in a nutshell, but we need to remove our nutty shell, unfreeze our hearts, and really open ourselves to receive what is being given.
It is often us, that take a step back, rather than a step forwards, towards God, and his love.
@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
31 Jan 21
@innertalks So true. It's hard to remove the shell because we've gotten comfortable in our comfort zone. It's hard to believe there is someone who genuinely loves us. When we realize He's for real, even then, it's hard to open up, but it's a start in the right direction.
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@innertalks (23742)
• Australia
31 Jan 21
@just4him Yes, it's been hard for me to do too.
I always think that I am unworthy of my receiving such great love, when I have done nothing much in, or with my life, so far.
The fact that God does love me that greatly, despite my unworthiness, always brings a great tear to my heart too.
The tear binds me to God then even more too, and helps to heal the tear (rip/hole/emptiness/sin) that is still there too.
@Shiva49 (28390)
• Singapore
31 Jan 21
The universe is love incarnated and we are part of it.
So we are embodiment of love, so why not live it?
However, we see ourselves as separate and set barriers to divide us from the truth of oneness
like "us and them" in terms of beliefs, one-upmanship, ego, material wealth.
The news headlines make us feel sick in the pit of the stomach as they are bereft of love highlighting not only the divisiveness but also justifying and even extolling them.
The divisiveness in society is the warning sign of paucity of love in us.
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@innertalks (23742)
• Australia
31 Jan 21
I saw a scientific program on the television last night about the idea that information is never lost in our Universe.
So it is with love, also.
Love is never lost from us, and is always there for us. We are never separated from God, his love, or his truth, at any time.
Isaiah, (from the Christian Bible) chapter 55, verse 11 (KJV) says:
"So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it."
God's love, or his truth, or his word, is leaving him at all times heading for us then, and in the end, it will always work its magic in us, in one way, or another.
God will prosper from his own creation, and his love for it will ensure this comes about.
@innertalks (23742)
• Australia
31 Jan 21
@TheHorse If this was true, who do we love? Only ourselves?
Perhaps, there is no me either then.
Perhaps, it is all just God then, just trying to learn to love himself then.
