Love, the Feeling and
Love, the State of Being
Lazaris
Love is an emotion and a State of Being. It is both a feeling and a level of awareness. Further, it is the only feeling/awareness that transmutes, transforms and transcends all energy. It is universal. It is the only feeling/awareness that transmutes, transforms and transcends every level of consciousness. Love is the only line of communication that reaches all the way to the God/Goddess/All that is.
There are those who contend that love is a feeling—just a feeling and no more. They say it is temporal, ever-changing, always expanding or contracting.
At the same time, another philosophy states that love is not a feeling at all. Rather, love is a State of Consciousness that is constantly sought, but never fully found.
In fact, we would suggest that love is both. It is a feeling that you can spontaneously explore, and it is a skill that you can specifically learn. There is the skill and art of loving.
Love is also an ideal. It is a state of awareness, a State of Being or Consciousness that you are always seeking. Though you will never fully embrace the totality of love, in your search, while you stretch and reach, you become more and more of the ideal you pursue. You become more and more of the very love you seek....
On the physical plane, you have access to the full range of positive and negative emotions. Positive and negative can have at least two distinct meanings. On one hand, they can mean good and bad; and on the other, they can be interpreted as yin and yang, or contracting and expanding, without a judgment of right or wrong. For the most part, the consensus reality agrees that feelings like love, joy, happiness, excitement, etc., are positive—they are good. Likewise anger, hurt, sadness, fear, etc. are universally considered negative or bad emotions.
Metaphysicians have often adopted the consensus reality interpretation by saying you should feel the good emotions all of the time and never feel the bad ones. Often one's metaphysical or spiritual prowess is measured by the presence of good and the absence of bad emotions so defined by the consensus.
We would offer a more intricate view. Positive emotions are the ones that are appropriately expressed and released. Negative emotions are not appropriately expressed and/or released. The emphasis is on appropriately." Sometimes that may mean direct expression—talking to the person or resolving the situation directly in your physical world. Sometimes that may mean indirect expression—talking to the person or playing through the situation in mediation.
Hate that is expressed and released appropriately is a very positive emotion, while its suppression and sublimation is very negative and can be very dangerous. On the other hand, love that is denied and turned inward can become twisted and destructive. It can become murderous. People have been killed when that hate or love was inappropriately expressed and released.
The other differentiation of emotion is more clearly between expanding and contracting emotion. This delineation conforms more completely with the concepts of Yin-Yang. Those emotions that expand your awareness are positive, and those, which contract your awareness, are negative. They are, however, neither good nor bad. Every emotion begins with the option of being expansive or contracting. Then as you mature, your emotions stabilize.
For example, there is a time in your evolution when the expression of anger and hurt are very expansive, and therefore should be called positive. However, after a certain level of advancement, anger and hurt are not bad, but they are contracting. Eventually they become only contracting, and you drop them off. You drop them off not because they are bad or wrong, but because they are contracting and your growth—your spiritual evolution—has reached the level where it is all-expansive. That occurs, however, once you have expanded beyond the physical plane.
In our reality [Lazaris', not yours and mine], for example, we know anger, but we never feel it. We know hurt, fear and despair, but we never feel them. They are contracting emotions, and there is no room for them in our ever-expanding reality. Though we do not ever feel these negative emotions—these contracting emotions—we can know what you go through when you do.
On your physical plane you have access to all emotions. As you grow and move to higher levels, the suppressed and potentially twisted emotions drop away. The contracting emotions also drop off. The last of the negative emotions is fear of loneliness. It finally drops away too.
The expressed and expansive emotions do just that—they express and expand to fill the void. Eventually even the range of positive emotion changes. The range converges. It becomes more focused and more concentrated. Eventually the only emotion left is love.
It is then that love, the feeling, becomes Love of the State of Being, the State of Consciousness. It is only then that Love is God/Goddess/All That Is.
The one fully open line of communication between you and God/Goddess/All That Is, is the line of love that becomes Love—or should it be LOVE?
1987 Concept: Synergy
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