Short Story: A Philosopher talks about love, and consciousness

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The philosopher, Charley Von Trotsliy, had written a small paper for the college's monthly newsletter, on love, and its relationship to consciousness. Here is what he wrote: "Consciousness is a byproduct of love. Consciousness is attracted to love, which brings love to its best life, within us." "When we focus consciousness, linked to love, on anything, we realise the true value of that thing, person, or activity, then too." "The ingratitude of someone who has a need only for themselves to find fulfilment in the world, is linked into their inability to love others too." "To really love, you need to be able to feel gratitude for all, including yourself, God, and the ones you are loving too." "To reach past the entrappiness of sin requires you to keep close to God, and not close to the sin, so when sin comes close, move away from it, closer to God, by saying a quick prayer to God like this:" '"Keep me from sin, o God, and help me to stay close in love with you too."' "We lose our ability to consciously love, when we selfishly allow ourselves to be caught up in the entitlement trap." "When love is a state of our being, in that its energy is allowed to live fully alive within us, then we reach higher consciousness states then too." "We can live from the underlying presence of this energy of love, and still feel other emotions too, at the same time. Emotions, and thoughts, come and go, but love should be ever present as itself within us, at all times." "Love consciousness, is unconditional love." "Such love is of the soul, and this type of love is greater than the love which a human can experience as human love only. Love has nothing to do with our mind, and everything to do with our heart." "The key to love's realness within us is linking ourselves to our soul self." "We cannot do this with our mind, nor with mindfulness, or meditation." "Love lives in us from outside of our mind." "We can quieten down our mind through such practices, and when our mind is not overbusy with just itself, then our heart will move more to the front of our lives, rather than its staying in a secondary background-position, where our mind often pushes it, or relegates it too." And so, with that last paragraph, ended his brief article on love, consciousness, and our mind. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com Philosophy is usually of the mind, but this philosopher talked here about love.