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Old 04-22-2007, 09:24 PM   #36 (permalink)
ethereal
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Yeah, love already exists within your consciousness, or else you wouldn't be able to recognize and feel it

These days I've been temporarily entering states of love/beauty that I can only describe as a complete "meltingness" of everything, where you surrender everything to the moment and to God, and even your self-consciousness dissolves into that Love.

I think it helps to consciously remember what it was like, and you can kind of trigger yourself into entering it again

It also helps to remember that this Love is an impersonal quality, and shouldn't be projected onto people/objects. I found myself incredibly attracted to this one girl who is 7 years older than me, and then it finally hit me that I was attracted to the Love she was emanating and not necessarily her physicality (although she is pretty too , there are far more prettier girls). Self-calibrated her at 525, which confirms it.

Also helps to be on guard and not drop into naivete, which is the major downside of Unconditional Love. It's not Loving, to others and to yourself, to allow that which is non-integrous free rein in your life. You can love and forgive people who swindle and cheat you, but that's confusing love with passivity and allowing integrity to be corrupted.
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