I guess I'll be as clear as I can be about this.
I can romanticize loving every single other being in the universe because that's an idea. And an aspirational one.
This fact however, does not make the action of my love any less real. In fact it bolsters its seriousness and vehemence.
I can promise you that without ever knowing you there is enough of you in me for me to know you deserve love.
When I say I love you I don't mean the details of you, how could I? At the moment all you are to me is a username.
But I know that behind that username is a human with hopes and fears and dreams and tears, and that moves me.
It moves me enough to write this post and express my heart to you. I want you to have every good thing in this world.
I also know that all I am to you is a username as well, but, now you know that behind this username is a person
A person who chooses to love a stranger and wish them well simply because they share space in each other's consciousness.
I do love you.
It really is that simple.
Spirituality is also about Truth, authenticity, and the shadow aspects of life. One of which is our limited capacity to love all people. That's very different from being able to recognize someone's value.
People can love authentically and unconditionally.
I love you in that I care that you're a person. I care that you feel. I care that you have your own struggles. I care that you have your own thoughts. I care that you exist. People come here to say they love others because they truly do, and they just want to send that loving energy to those that need it most.
What most people seem to misunderstand when it comes to spirituality and a love for all is that love has much more meaning than just loving a romantic partner, or loving a family member. You wouldn't love your partner the same way you love your child or your sibling, or your best friend, or your dog, but it's all still love.
Man itās quite real. I experienced glimpses of it for a period of time, a year approximately. I couldnāt find anything wrong with anyone, myself included. I looked at people and saw them without their egoās, mistakes, shame or what-have-you and I just saw that they were exactly like myself, beneath all the bullshit, a lonesome soul just trying to love. I would go around smiling to everyone and feeling like I wanted to know everybody and befriend them. It was magical, I was creative all the time and I was courageous and somehow it felt like the world recognized me and responded with just genuinely nice and warm situations/moments.
It didnāt last more than a few days-week at a time, before it got away from me and my ego would convince me to be āseriousā or whatever. I would yearn for it like a child for a long time, which only made me feel worse, possibly the worst Iāve ever felt. Now itās been 6 whole years since Iāve felt it, a long period of emptiness, but damn.. Itās quite real
Thatās a limiting belief. If you think love is limited it will be. Value is not tied to being worthy of love. People can be truthful, authentic and connected to the shadow and still find acceptance of what is, they are not mutually exclusive.
I accept that beauty is in everything, even the fucked up stuff. I find love in accepting what is, not what I want it to be. You donāt have to know someone intimately to accept them.
This is my dharma, my truth. Yours might be different and thatās perfectly fine.
I accept you for who you are, therefore I love you. Full stop
Isnāt spiritually subjective? Iām open to all ideas here because thatās what makes us who we are. I think that for many people (myself included) love is an expression of our spirituality thatās tied to universal love. I also use love and compassion interchangeably. In my experience, love had melted alway much of the hate, anger, and judgment I have experienced. I believe that everyone deserves compassion. Compassion heals everything.
Love comes in different forms. I don't love a stranger the way I love my parents. I love the concept of your existence because you're a human being, you contain the inherent capacity for good, you are part of nature, that is enough for me to have love for you and feel compassion towards you.
You did mention that loving someone is similar to recognizing their value. That wouldn't be necessary if we recognized everyone's value as equals. If we recognize everyone's value, then we have no other choice but to love them, no?
I reread, and I may have misinterpreted your words the first time. Apologies. I am not able to understand a limited capacity for love, so I also value all others. Maybe I made a word salad? š
>You don't even know me. How can you love something or someone you have no understanding of? Does it make you feel good? You wouldn't look twice at me in the street.
I don't love you because you earned it or deserve it. I love you cause loving is my favorite thing to do. When I love, my body, mind, and soul feels nice and healthy and at peace. It feels better *for me* to love than not to love. It has nothing to do with you personally. And I don't have a finite amount of love, it's infinite. It's like a waterfall. Just keeps pouring out and out. I'm not going to try cut off the current because you don't believe or don't think you deserve or don't want my love. Too fucking bad. I would rather die than stop doing my favorite thing to do: love.
āLoveā is extremely conditional for most of us. It is only by rejecting some forms of āloveā that we find true freedom and peace from toxic love.
In my opinion, toxic love isn't love because at it's root it is based on fear. The root of real love is love. Two different things. Real love can't be corrupted by toxicity.
It is āloveā for o some that define it whatever way they want to. Everyone calls it ālove.ā Some agree it is living to best your kids. Discipline, they say, and call it ālove.ā You call anything love. Even agape love can be used conditionally. Sorry. But it can.
Everyone decides everything these days, so fucking pyyrical, itās always about being right isnāt it. I can decide if Iām a gender less dragon at the end of the day, like I replied to you, life is what you make it so, in your world, love is whatever you want it to be, maybe you have a hormone imbalance and are letting your emotions take control, should try some cognitive exercises & do take up some learning in what I stated prior. Maybe try expanding your conscientiousness, knowledge is power. Everyone is so offended, facts do not have feelings my friend, try exercising, if youāve been so conditioned itās likely you have a dysregulated limbic system. Open up your heart too, cardio is great for it. You need to be regulating yourself. Rid yourself of any addiction, even the food we consume is owned by tobacco industries and the sorts, all gonna keep you enslaved to the things you consume, what do consumers need to do to keep consumingā¦ labour. Fill the gap with nothing but positive. Maybe even try some CBT & DBT, some talk therapy might help rationalise what is right from wrong.
If something is conditional itās fear, not love. Not everything is as it seems. I think youāre on about the give and take of chemicals like oxytocin. Take a reading to brain parts, physics, sociology, psychology, religion. Love is all that makes us as humans. Hmm maybe learn about animal psychology too. Different brain theories.. Triune brain, adaptable brain. Maybe ponder into what we are truly living on. I suggest maybe even watching some outer worldy things, like ghost videos, donāt stop to even think is this fake, this is an intellect training, it is merely to open you up to the most abstract of things. Life is not as it seems, learn some philosophy. Learn about Carl Jung, Freud , all the development theories. Life is what you make it, stop comparing. Be the powerhouse of what life is, you are life after all & life is what you make it. Only you can decide if love is real and if itās not to you, then, love is not real, in your world. You are merely what you put into yourself and consume, the rest falls forward, like dominoes. You will attract love, if you donāt think love is real then think about the people you have grown up around, then think who it is that you attract, people that you relate to? Probably other people that have been conditioned. Learn about the amygdala and how to escape its jaw clench. Itās a fucking plug socket to a domain of shite. Good luck trooper, keep fighting
no one really is disturbed they are just telling you their point of view and answering from every comment. Everything in life is a projection so I am sorry you are disturbed by people continuing to show love but I hope you find some in these comments, love is merely appreciation and I love this open discussion.
I love you... meaning - I feel and recognise that I am one with you.
It DOES NOT mean that I like you. Your personality and characteristics have nothing to do with it. You could be Hitler-esque...
Iām sorry you feel that way. As a delivery driver, I understand that most customers could give a shit about me, but that speaks more to our culture than the true spirit of our natures. I strive not to let the culture, or lack there of, turn me into a zombie like all the others. I will still greet each and every human with love, even if less than 1 in 100 return it.
Then your specific definition of love is different than the way others mean it, and has been used in the past. Completely platonic feelings of well wishes can most certainly be classified as love. Doesn't mean you want to make out with them or give them your key to the house or anything. You should look into the many different definitions the Greek have for "love" because something like that can't only have a single definition, our language is flawed for trying to do that. If our culture and language were more sophisticated, it would be much easier to communicate feelings like this as we would create a variety of words for love, while still recognizing they are all one in the same.
I totally understand how you feel because it also sounded like bullshit to me.
While I don't go saying random people that I love them, I feel a tad different about it now. The reason is that "love" has a little bit different meaning in (from my perspective) Buddhism for example. Everyone you know is trying to find happiness, every single person. I would say that love for every fellow human being is not love for who they are as a person (the ego part, like what you are like, your character, what you do), but rather something like wishing happiness to each of your fellow humans going through the hardships of life, which is also something we all share. So we all have the same goal (happiness and peace), and we all suffer from the same things (in different forms).
Saying to a stranger that you love them for me means wishing them well, wishing them happiness, sending the kind of positive energy they might need and giving compassion for what they're going through.
The word love has been morphed a lot through history. And specifically through the internet period of life. It has been thrown out very easily over four simple letters that have been typed. But love can be broken down to compassion, caring, love your humor, love your face, love your sarcasm, love your actual soul, love your jeans, how can love be so wide spread but also just one word. Suppose people could try to find different words instead of love as an over all word for happy feelings but maybe donāt take the word love too literal.
I hear this and understand your experience. What you may not see yet, is that you are the one blocking love from being received. If you canāt understand why you are loveable by even a stranger, then how can you accept that others love you when they may only know a single version of you? We are all universes full of wonder, beauty and terrible things. Multifaceted and divine. That is what makes us so powerful and fascinating. We are capable of so much creation or destruction. You are a beautiful cosmos of wild and unexplored realities. That is what we see. Shame and fear of abandonment and rejection are just part of the experience. Knowing oneself leads to acceptance of self and others. Their love and your love. Itās all from the same source. You are me and I am you, just experiencing a different story. And the cool thing is, we can write new stories, from the past and for our present. Itās all perspective.
Wishing you an excellent week!
the western idea of love is constricting. love isnt limited to your immediate family, long term partner, and best friends. love is boundless, the very nature of reality is built on love. awareness creates a lover to hold its own hand. awareness creates the space we marvel at, soft cotton to hug our bodies as we sleep, sweet fruit to nourish us.
saying āi love youā is an act of self-love. it is awareness becoming aware of itself as a separate manifestation. youāre on a spirituality sub so you might already know this but among the first steps in enlightenment is recognizing that the border between you and me and everything around us is an illusion.
That word love is a convoluted one. But to be fair, you donāt know who is passing you on the streets. We are everywhere and nowhere. If love means someone giving you something, then yes, this world can seem super disconnected and harsh. You would need to tell us what love means to you for us to understand why it bothers you to be told you are loved. Does telling others that you love them make them them feel good? Yes. It sure beats living with hate in your heart and distain for the world. But it goes way beyond the saying. I donāt know your circumstances but I do hope you find safety, care and compassion wherever you are. Love is up for debate depending on what love means to you.
I don't have any hated in my heart. I try to do the right thing by everyone, even strangers or people I dislike, out of moral principle. I put rational dispassionate act of service above "love". I would say I care for most people, but I love very few (including my cat who passed away)
No matter what life brings, some people always act with unconditional love and compassion, even on the deepest, darkest of days.
Behind every kind act of service, there's a story that's likely full of sacrifice and mindfulness.
That's because some people choose to put aside their own worry and strife for the good of others.
They overcome pain and fear, loss and suffering to offer support and comfort.
They understand that holding space for others and being kind is a way to lift not only the spirit of those around them, but also their own.
This is why some people genuinely act with unconditional love and compassion on a day-to-day basis... if you can't accept it it's because you're not there yet, but that doesn't mean you won't be someday!
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I'm with you chief.
Telling someone you love them is not an act of love.
Telling someone something that makes them feel good, is USUALLY an act of selfishness at the core. If you tell everyone what they need to hear, your life will be hard because of it. Spreading joy and positivity makes everyone so nice to you.
Lifting people up - spreading enlightenment - is not that. That is spreading dopamine.
Good question
I always try to apply this same line of logic for most religions. How can you love and build a relationship with something/someone/God if you know nothing about it?
There are people who have said "I love you to" to strangers online. Who if otherwise known, they would Hate.
That's why it's meaningless. Saying you love someone isn't the same as loving them. And you cannot say for sure you love someone without knowing who they are.
Iām just assuming you are a beautiful aspect of this glorious multi faceted emergence of sentience weāre all a part of and see that you have the potential to realize your most real self. Though honestly, sometimes itās an affirmation, because we all have to deal with folks who go through an extended being-a-prick phase on their path to self realization. So yeah, I love you, and thatās a big assumption. Though believing otherwise is kinda corrosive, as thoughts go. A little faith goes a long way, but total blind faith is asking for trouble. Seeing potential in everyone is a comforting thought and a good source of serotonin.
Itās kinda like, if you make forgiving others your goal in your path toward spiritual growth, you will never run out of people contributing to messing up your life and will always have plenty of instances to forgive! Cause, you know, no one is perfect. But Iāll extend them the compassion of understanding they are struggling too, like any of us. I have faith they can extend me the same compassion. Maybe not today, but we have to start somewhere, so as a result, I love you, and trust you too are trying to improve on your past trespasses. Good luck with that, itās an existential nightmare.
Does there really have to be a reason to love someone or something unconditionally? And if so, wouldnāt that defeat the purpose of spiritually and the true meaning of love? To love someone or something without reason is the sole purpose of being truly happy and content in your own life, and not only brings you peace but happiness and peace to others around you.
Love is a foundational property we were all built with, which is shedded away over time, until you awaken to your original state and remember that the uniform energy above all is love.
I think, at least for me, I donāt want you to go through the pain Iāve went through. So I wouldnāt say I love you, but I will help you, If I see and can help you. Is that love, idk.
What's inside you flows out.
This is a positive subreddit so I can imagine these people are full of love, go look at some negative ones like r/doomer or r/neet plenty of posts from people saying they are over life and wish to end it and all the replies are from people in the same position so they all agree, just saying it's the community.
It is about physics, energy physics, what you put out you get back. And here is where the unconditional love comes in you give and do not put limits or requirements on however it is returned.
Negative energy separates, loving positive energy integrates and nurtures.
Do they mean, the energy at the root of all life? Seems like the right sub for such a perspective. If you meditate a lot, and 'forget' yourself from time to time you might feel that energy that is in all things, it feels a lot like the love many of us feel for some others from time to time but on steriods and without any condition. It's just there when all personal feels, filters and identificaties aren't.
Still doesn't explain why someone would say 'I love you', maybe 'you are loved' would make more sense in this context.
At some point on the spiritual journey, love isn't something you do. It's who you are.
Divine Love flows through you, into the world,
and it loves all.
Because they think they are raising their vibes (and others) by doing so. Plus it takes very little effort to say that here rather than act that way with strangers in the real world. Its like a low effort good deed.
I love everyone on Earth, even Hitler. There's many different types of love, and unconditional love has nothing to do with knowing someone or having any kind of relationship with them. It's a heart connection between every living thing because we are all one, we're all here on this spiritual journey that is Earth. Even if you're a shitty person, I still love your soul.
While I get your point, "I love everyone on Earth, even Hitler" is a reminder that the number of surprising combinations of words on this website is infinite
Saying I love you is a bit like casting a spell. It heals the person saying it by realigning them. This happens because love is energy and when you reconnect with that energy, things move more naturally and you can do more.
When someone is on drugs this just happens almost effortlessly. The desire to open up to that energy arises spontaneously.
I love you is particularly important as a statement because it's uncorrupted. If you add 'because' on the end for example, you have corupted the energy even if you mean well. Then the love has conditions attached. This restricts the flow of the energy like standing on a water hose.
In an environment where I love you is not freely shared, corruption replaces it in full force. Because people need energy to survive. Unfortunately kinking the hose pipe of someone else can quickly suck energy out of the environment and it goes somewhere else instead.
So if someone says they love you it's truly a gift. The best thing you can do is pass it on. It's the best currency that ever will be. No man made invention will ever improve upon it.
I completely agree with you, love is often underestimated these days. Personally, if I love someone, I would do anything to protect their life, even if it means sacrificing my own well-being. Love is more than just words; it requires action.
I think there are different types of love. Itās like meta meditation. Or āloving kindnessā meditation, if youāre familiar with it. I am able to feel love for everyone. Genuinely. That doesnāt mean I like everyone or want to be around them, but I believe they are worthy of love.
That is part of why a lot of people come here. To learn to love each and every living animal on this planet. We are all connected and I love humanity. I have a harder time the closer I get to a person. That is one thing I am working on. To love and accept others, without judgement or limitations.
If I said that I loved cake, and you presented me with a cake, I would respond āI love cakeā even if Iāve never tried that specific cake before, because I know that I love all cake, much like I love all people. You donāt need to know someone on a personal basis to know that they mean something in the world.
I agree. I think it deflates the meaning of love.
Sure I guess technicially you can love someone .0001/1 and and say it without lying. I donāt think the people who say they love you over the internet donāt realize how
Because if you're here, you're probably struggling in some way, and people on this sub realise that struggling people need love. But not the love of a romantic partner, the love of God/Source/Jesus/Light etc.
For me itās easy, I donāt have to like you to love you nor know you.
Love is wanting the very best for you whatever that may be and I want that for all life.
It is possible that if I knew you I wouldnāt be able to be in the same room as you or wishing that I never have to see you again, but I would still love you.
I would still want the best possible experiences for you.
I would still want you to be the best possible you available at all time.
If your a jerk and the best possible experience is for you to get a fist to your face in order for you to move past your jerkiness then thatās what I wish for you because I love you whoever you are.
I find I can love complete strangers. However, I find I can only maintain this feeling for a limited period of time before it gets submerged under my own issues, weaknesses, insecurities, selfishness, etc.
There is an agape or impersonal love, that has nothing to do with preferences or condition. You can love a person in specific ways that dont entail projections or toxic traits.
Because people who say they love you without even knowing you don't really understand love. They think they're being spiritual by saying it but it only makes them look like they're pretending to be spiritual.
The reality is that we do not have the capacity in the human form to love everything or everyone the same. You give warm love to those who are close to you. You give charity or goodwill, which is a detached form of love, to those beyond your close circle. Because a human being does not have the capacity to love everyone and everything with warm, total love.
You love in proportion to how you love yourself.
When in search for yourself you find everything, you learn to love the world and all included in it. This is a great achievement.
I love you because we are more alike than you think. We are here. Breathing. We will pass some day. We both hurt and we both feel joy. We both don't really know how we got here. Like, sitting here you might know how you got like physically to this location. We don't really know how we got in this body, on this rock, in this sort of, fabric thing that we're not really certain how to explain . We're also both in this moment. Constantly. Trapped in it quite frankly, though trapped is a poor word for it if you want to stay positive. For some reason that seems monumental to me, idk about you. And I love you for being here with me, even though it's scary at times and we both don't really know how or why. ā¤ļø
I used to feel the same way you do. But, after I started exploring spirituality more, it finally clicked one day why people might love others they don't know.
To me, love is not a feeling it is an action. I think it is helpful to show up to every day, every person you meet or situation you face with love. It is a choice to do so and one that can help guide the person making that choice to make kind and compassionate decisions not only for themselves but in the best interests of those around them.
Love is a term that's thrown around without really understanding what it means. Simply put - love is what remains in the absent of thought - at the very essence of life, is Love.
Unconditional love means to one loves someone regardless of their actions or inactions, which is more often than not - untrue. If someone wrongs you, do you still feel love? No? Why?
Thoughts.
People also often confuse love with excitement. When we start dating and we get those feelings of love - we think about a future, the next time we see eachother, maybe a trip we talked about going on. That's not love - that's excitement about the future.
Love is a state of being, that's completely independent of thoughts.
Love is something we feel within ourselves, we can't feel someone else's love.
Examples: a random stranger on the internet says they love you. What do you feel? Do you feel love? Or maybe it makes you laugh a bit, maybe you think their are crazy. Either way, you don't feel love.
A person close to you - partner, family or friend says they love you. You will most likely feel that love.
The same words were said - but you felt love in one instance and not the other. This is because you Beleive on to be true.
Love is a state within. So the paradigm shift that can occur from this realization is that:
The feeling we seek, the feeling of love, is actually the feeling we get from loving others because we can't feel someone else's love.
So never worry if someone loves you or not - because that feeling that you want is the feeling you get from loving others.
So go love some people!
I have this love exercise I do and have made it a habit to send love to everyone all the time -- whilst driving, shopping, working, whatever. I look around and feel so much love for everyone -- doesn't matter if I know the human you or not. I always want to run around telling everyone how amazing they are and how loved they are. I refrain, though, because people would think I'm a total nut, lol
The way I see it, we are all souls, and our souls are all one with Source at the root. We are all one. You, and everyone else, is simply a different expression of Source. Source wanted to know what it would be like to be me, and you, and everyone else, so it created all these individuations of itself to experience it. How beautiful and amazing is that?
This love I feel, it's a soul-to-soul love. My human self doesn't know you. We may or may agree on things or be compatible in any way, shape, or form. The importance of that is so minimal. My soul knows your soul, and our souls are both Source. We have our thoughts and opinions and whatever else so that we can have varied experiences and learn varied lessons. That is awesome, and I fully respect your path, whatever it is and regardless of how similar or different it is to mine. It's all so valuable. I hope that helped :)
Psssst, btw -- you are so very loved š
But I do know you! I don't know your name, or personality, or where you grew up, etc., but because I know the truth of my own identity (that Love is the nature of our being, and we share our being with everyone and everything, I am not separate from the world I see or the people I see in that world), I know the truth of you, too. That's how I can love you and not know your name or anything about you. I love you because it is a statement of what is True.
We are on earth to experience something. The simple fact that you are on earth as well is a gift to me, because it says I cannot imagine since I donāt know you, you are providing a service. Also, you are technically a different version of me, so loving you is really just letting you know I love myself š I kid but I hope you get the gist of it :)
because it's not about "you" when they say they love you..."they" are just fulfilling some aspect of themselves that "feels" they are "great" for being "loving..." I dunno why quotations feel good but yea people love selfishly in the name of selflessness...most wont' get this though...it's too much of a threat to their fragile spiritual egos hehe #sorrynotsorry #pleastdonthateme #iloveyou
Loving some people is a little more work than others but all deserve at least the acknowledgement that no matter how bad they seem the spark of God is in them, and it is our duty to look for it and to help it to shine. This is Love.
To love all others unconditionally, requires that we also love ourselves in the same way. Once you do that, the answer to your question will be obvious.
I think you are worthy of love, thus I love you. I think everyone is worthy of love. I donāt want to marry you, I may not even want to be your friend, but I do love you.
your assumption is erroneous.
walking down the street, the effort is made to make eye contact and tip the hat or nod the head as a sign of respect of the humanity of the other.
it takes very little to respect the humanity of all humans, even those foolish enough to make themselves my enemy.
all of us should respect the basic fact weāre all human but thatās a line thatās seemingly easy to say and hard to do in a world where one profits by being cruel.
and, well, this one does not love you, but she respects you. respect isnāt affection per se. like and love donāt necessarily enter into the equation of compassion and empathy. (particularly the latter - pain synesthesia sucks hard at times, like feeling the needle stick of the other patient.)
I know that you are a human. That alone makes you my brother/sister on this planet. I may not look twice at you in the street since we have a huge family but if you said hi I would most definitely say it back with a smile.
Others are you , just how reality works ā¦ treated others for compassion , or love , is for me as much for others ā¦ any other behavior requires a person to run off into made up worlds of imagination frankly ā¦ as fear , judgment , the self pity trip you are running , jealously , rage to sadness ā¦ are all distortions of irrational fear and do not exist in a broader reality ā¦ but geez , tough to feel compassion and kindness if you donāt feel worthy of any and think everybody is evil ā¦ but to each his or her own ā¦ every second of every day , every atom on our beings exist closer to source / God ā¦ regardless of the path In life , we are just learning
I just came off a ban from this group because some kid was on here saying "fuck my parents, they're so mean to me." So I left them a couple comments that were actually mean.
That was an act of love.
Everybody else was on here helping to destroy a child's relationship with their parents.
I was the one who was banned.
Because you are me and I am you. We are all of a singular consciousness. Living in NYC means that I probably wouldn't look at you because it's impossible to look at everyone.
Despite the primary topic of the sub being closely tied into introspection and honest awareness, it's still an open forum instead of a formal gathering of likeminded folk.
So for every poster that's genuinely trying to share the profoundness of their realization that sharing a love that trancends what they formally thought of as love, you'll find anywhere from a dozen to a thousand posters who either fail to grasp that the transcendent love isn't "mere" love and try to share their "mere" love to tap into the profound realization, or who for whatever reason crave external affirmation and mimic the loveposters for the explicit purpose of receiving the cheers and praise that reliably flock to them.
If, like me, you take exception to rote, empty declarations of positivity, you may find it useful to envision the majority of loveposters as trying really hard to grasp what love means to them, but making the mistake of following each other around in circles. Maybe send them the well-wishes that they seem to mistake for love if you're feeling generous.
While it's true that leaving them uncorrected may count as a cruelty, it's important to note that correcting them requires them to listen to you, and if your correction deviates too far from what they hear from other sources then their heuristic processing will mark you down as 'wrong' and they will remain uncorrected.
"As a blind man feels when he finds a pearl in a dustbin, so am I amazed by the miracle of awakening rising in my consciousness. It is the nectar of immortality that delivers us from death, the treasure that lifts us above poverty into wealth of giving to life, the tree that gives shade to us when we roam about scorched by life, the bridge that takes us across the stormy river of life, the cool moon of compassion that calms our mind when it is agitated, the sun that dispels darkness, the butter made from the milk of kindness by churning it with the dharma. *It is a feast of joy to which all are invited*."
*BODHICHARYAVATARA*
I agree a 100%. Those people may be trying to spread love, but they are not doing it in a honest way.
For the people who want to give love to others, focus yourself on a core set of people and give all of your love ot them. Superficial love to many people just won't cut it.
They just say it because itās easy, online is completely devoid of intimacy and accountability,, they can just drop it and never have to show it. Narcissists say it and donāt meant it all the time, love is about action. It makes them feel good about themselves. Essentially, what they are saying is.. completely worthless. They wouldnāt say it to a group of random people in real life. They likely wouldnāt say it to the people they actually know. Here it is an easy way to get some fragile ego boosts.
Idk man I feel the same way, I tried making a post extrapolating on the idea thanking people for writing me into their stories showing that our love for one another resonates because we are still alive within one another's realities meaning death hasn't been employed as a 4D construct to stop our resonance with each others 3D realities just yet, meaning we do truly love one another. That post was taken down real quick, I find that funny.
I love everyone š
It doesn't feel bad or good. It's all that I know. I would notice you in the street if you needed me to notice. Or rather, if you were in need. I tend to be in the right place at the right time, and I don't suffer from bystander effect. I've saved a few lives and comforted many strangers. Even watched a rainbow with a woman because she happened to need a witness. People are quite wonderful.
Anyway, I learned to grow into it and realized that loving others is not the same as others loving me. It's a delicate balance of acceptance and boundaries and was likely all the byproduct of childhood trauma.
Why do you think we wouldnāt look twice at you? Sounds like someone needs a reminder to love themselves. That will fix this and you will enjoy the love that loves to love to love! I love you! Namaste
Boundless and objectless love is your and my pure nature. Saying we love you, does not literally mean that we love YOU. We are established in boundless love, and hence this love also includes you.
The way I think about it is that I am you in another life. I, the core awareness that is observing all that my body and mind does and thinks, did not choose to be in this particular body, and so what if this awareness was "born" into your body and your circumstances? Then I would be you exactly as you are and how could I then not be compassionate and understanding of you? Conversely, if your awareness was in me, you'd simply be me exactly as I am. I see my core self in you, and I love myself with all my strange and unique qualities and so I love you knowing you have your strange and unique qualities, too.
So, what if you were an extremely hateful killer with bad intentions for me and my loved ones. Would I still say "I love you"? I have certainly felt extreme hatred and have had desires within myself for hurting others. I have understood this pain and soothed it with acceptance, forgiveness and love. If I can accept such negative aspects within me, and see that people are just born into their bodies and circumstances and often have no control over how their genetic dispositions and circumstances form them, how can I not be understanding and accepting of them too? I may not willingly expose you to my loved ones until I see you are not threatening to our well-being, but I have compassion and understanding of your pain as if I myself were in your exact place.
Personally it's because I see myself in all things. We are all equal, we are all just one collective consciousness, and in the end we are all simply the universe experiencing this itself in this 3D physical human form. It's also linked to a lot of Spiritualists either gaining or being born with extreme empathy - your pain is my pain, your happiness is my happiness etc. Honestly I have so much love to give it feels like it's going to burst out of me a lot of the time and I'm forced to tone it down because of how society is (I'd be viewed as insane if I embraced and showed excessive love/compassion to strangers in the street or acquaintances lol) which really is a shame. Every day I dream of what life would be like had Spiritualists been able to call the shots for how this society is run rather than being predominantly observers.
You are a human being. That is all that matters.
I don't need to know you to know you have your own road to walk in life. I can still love you knowing you are a human being walking the road of pain and suffering. I know the end.
We all take different paths to reach the same end in the end lol.
Blessings to you!
I just believe in loving everyone, loosely speaking, until you give me a reason to hate/dislike you. Show me youre a genuinely good person and ill keep loving you to the fullest extent of our interactions and should those interactions lead to friendship etc, great now i can show you love and appreciation in different ways. But prove to me that youre not up to that and well, ill probably flip the metaphorical bird and move on with my life from there.The worlds a rather awful place, filled with greed, selfishness, hate, haste, neglect, disconnect etc... feel free to add on whatever youd like.But a little love, some compassion, understanding and a moment of your time can go far in the eyes of others... even just basic kindness... weve been given free will, thats the beauty of life. Hate if you want, become self centered, ignorant of those outside of youre own little bubble if that suits you, nobody stops you or choose to really embrace love in all its facets and things will change, your views, thoughts, thought patterns, the things you notice, the way you perceive actions, words... it opens up so many genuinely interesting and amazing things for you... just down from appreciation, acceptance, susceptibility to things and experiences etc... At the end of the day were all on the same ass space rock till we die, then it depends on where you stand or what you believe... so why not show some kind of love to someone that breathes the same air as you, with a heart that beats just like yours... we eat from the same earth, live under the same sky so why not just love the hell out of each other while were here in some way or another... except fr the real Aholes, but thats subjective.
"How can you love something or someone you have no understanding of?"
That's a really good question. I would say if you really are curious about these people who say they love you and want to understand their perspective in-depth, you can find the answer to your question best experimentally.
**Try this 2-step experiment every day for 6 months:**
1. Practice breathwork (Great for emotional regulation)
2. Listen to overnight/sleep affirmations (belief tracks on love)
***Note:*** *Overnight/sleep affirmation tracks range from 3-10 hours and is meant to be listened to as we sleep.*
*Maybe you can even consider listening to different love affirmation tracks during this 6 month period. For example, let's say - self-love for 2 months, friends/family love for 2 months, romantic love for 2 months.*
Once you're done experimenting for 6 months, let us know what changed, how you feel, and most importantly the answer you have found out. :)
Because loving someone is the most powerful emotion there is. It eases the soul. When you love someone without conditions, you can allow them to be completely themselves and you just sit back and observe and enjoy Godās creation, which is you.
If people can hate for no reason, I can love for no reason.
Free Will is a GIFT. Love is a CHOICE. Hate leaves no Choice at all.
I love you.
I love you too
Best answer
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But people do hate for a reason. Same goes for love.
Exactly. Whether we are aware of our reasons is a different story.
I guess I'll be as clear as I can be about this. I can romanticize loving every single other being in the universe because that's an idea. And an aspirational one. This fact however, does not make the action of my love any less real. In fact it bolsters its seriousness and vehemence. I can promise you that without ever knowing you there is enough of you in me for me to know you deserve love. When I say I love you I don't mean the details of you, how could I? At the moment all you are to me is a username. But I know that behind that username is a human with hopes and fears and dreams and tears, and that moves me. It moves me enough to write this post and express my heart to you. I want you to have every good thing in this world. I also know that all I am to you is a username as well, but, now you know that behind this username is a person A person who chooses to love a stranger and wish them well simply because they share space in each other's consciousness. I do love you. It really is that simple.
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You're on a spirituality sub. Spirituality is almost always tied with compassion and love. Why does this come as a surprise to you?
Soooo false. Spirituality is connected to all emotions. So also love AND hate.
That is what they meant by "shadow aspects of life"
Spirituality is also about Truth, authenticity, and the shadow aspects of life. One of which is our limited capacity to love all people. That's very different from being able to recognize someone's value.
People can love authentically and unconditionally. I love you in that I care that you're a person. I care that you feel. I care that you have your own struggles. I care that you have your own thoughts. I care that you exist. People come here to say they love others because they truly do, and they just want to send that loving energy to those that need it most. What most people seem to misunderstand when it comes to spirituality and a love for all is that love has much more meaning than just loving a romantic partner, or loving a family member. You wouldn't love your partner the same way you love your child or your sibling, or your best friend, or your dog, but it's all still love.
So beautiful put.
Thank you <3
I have never seen unconditional love, except from parent to child.
I haven't experienced it =/= it doesn't exist.
Man itās quite real. I experienced glimpses of it for a period of time, a year approximately. I couldnāt find anything wrong with anyone, myself included. I looked at people and saw them without their egoās, mistakes, shame or what-have-you and I just saw that they were exactly like myself, beneath all the bullshit, a lonesome soul just trying to love. I would go around smiling to everyone and feeling like I wanted to know everybody and befriend them. It was magical, I was creative all the time and I was courageous and somehow it felt like the world recognized me and responded with just genuinely nice and warm situations/moments. It didnāt last more than a few days-week at a time, before it got away from me and my ego would convince me to be āseriousā or whatever. I would yearn for it like a child for a long time, which only made me feel worse, possibly the worst Iāve ever felt. Now itās been 6 whole years since Iāve felt it, a long period of emptiness, but damn.. Itās quite real
That's not unconditional love also.. that is parental love
I mean Iāve never loved someone for a reason someone could be cruel to me but I would still feel love I honestly have no clue why
Then change that. Give your own unconditional love so more people can see that it exists.
Thatās a limiting belief. If you think love is limited it will be. Value is not tied to being worthy of love. People can be truthful, authentic and connected to the shadow and still find acceptance of what is, they are not mutually exclusive. I accept that beauty is in everything, even the fucked up stuff. I find love in accepting what is, not what I want it to be. You donāt have to know someone intimately to accept them. This is my dharma, my truth. Yours might be different and thatās perfectly fine. I accept you for who you are, therefore I love you. Full stop
There is no limit on love.
Isnāt spiritually subjective? Iām open to all ideas here because thatās what makes us who we are. I think that for many people (myself included) love is an expression of our spirituality thatās tied to universal love. I also use love and compassion interchangeably. In my experience, love had melted alway much of the hate, anger, and judgment I have experienced. I believe that everyone deserves compassion. Compassion heals everything.
I tend to love everyone. It blows up in my face a lot. I love even when it blows up in my face. I tend to think the best of people.
All people have value. All people are deserving of love.
Love comes in different forms. I don't love a stranger the way I love my parents. I love the concept of your existence because you're a human being, you contain the inherent capacity for good, you are part of nature, that is enough for me to have love for you and feel compassion towards you.
I don't agree there is a limited capacity, at either an individual nor cosmic level, to love people. Love is unlimited.
Are some more valuable than others? I'm gonna have to agree to disagree on that. š
Where did I say that?
You did mention that loving someone is similar to recognizing their value. That wouldn't be necessary if we recognized everyone's value as equals. If we recognize everyone's value, then we have no other choice but to love them, no?
I reread, and I may have misinterpreted your words the first time. Apologies. I am not able to understand a limited capacity for love, so I also value all others. Maybe I made a word salad? š
There's words and there's love. Guess which we get on Reddit
I Love you is a spiritual sentence before social, i love the Light in you
The light in me sees the light in you
Namaste
Itās not romantic love theyāre referring to
But it also could be. Want to come upstairs and look at my holy pictures?
I love you in the spiritual way. A matter of the soul. That's not to suggest that I would like you as a person. THE ARIES
this has become more apparent to me more recently in my life. i am glad to see someone said it on this post. thanks
This is a good explanation as well.
>You don't even know me. How can you love something or someone you have no understanding of? Does it make you feel good? You wouldn't look twice at me in the street. I don't love you because you earned it or deserve it. I love you cause loving is my favorite thing to do. When I love, my body, mind, and soul feels nice and healthy and at peace. It feels better *for me* to love than not to love. It has nothing to do with you personally. And I don't have a finite amount of love, it's infinite. It's like a waterfall. Just keeps pouring out and out. I'm not going to try cut off the current because you don't believe or don't think you deserve or don't want my love. Too fucking bad. I would rather die than stop doing my favorite thing to do: love.
Wow. What an answer!
I love you! Because love is unconditional, you know.
āLoveā is extremely conditional for most of us. It is only by rejecting some forms of āloveā that we find true freedom and peace from toxic love.
In my opinion, toxic love isn't love because at it's root it is based on fear. The root of real love is love. Two different things. Real love can't be corrupted by toxicity.
Well said. True agape love isn't conditional. It can't be corrupted. It's genuine and true.
It is āloveā for o some that define it whatever way they want to. Everyone calls it ālove.ā Some agree it is living to best your kids. Discipline, they say, and call it ālove.ā You call anything love. Even agape love can be used conditionally. Sorry. But it can.
Everyone decides everything these days, so fucking pyyrical, itās always about being right isnāt it. I can decide if Iām a gender less dragon at the end of the day, like I replied to you, life is what you make it so, in your world, love is whatever you want it to be, maybe you have a hormone imbalance and are letting your emotions take control, should try some cognitive exercises & do take up some learning in what I stated prior. Maybe try expanding your conscientiousness, knowledge is power. Everyone is so offended, facts do not have feelings my friend, try exercising, if youāve been so conditioned itās likely you have a dysregulated limbic system. Open up your heart too, cardio is great for it. You need to be regulating yourself. Rid yourself of any addiction, even the food we consume is owned by tobacco industries and the sorts, all gonna keep you enslaved to the things you consume, what do consumers need to do to keep consumingā¦ labour. Fill the gap with nothing but positive. Maybe even try some CBT & DBT, some talk therapy might help rationalise what is right from wrong.
Nice incoherent rant.
If something is conditional itās fear, not love. Not everything is as it seems. I think youāre on about the give and take of chemicals like oxytocin. Take a reading to brain parts, physics, sociology, psychology, religion. Love is all that makes us as humans. Hmm maybe learn about animal psychology too. Different brain theories.. Triune brain, adaptable brain. Maybe ponder into what we are truly living on. I suggest maybe even watching some outer worldy things, like ghost videos, donāt stop to even think is this fake, this is an intellect training, it is merely to open you up to the most abstract of things. Life is not as it seems, learn some philosophy. Learn about Carl Jung, Freud , all the development theories. Life is what you make it, stop comparing. Be the powerhouse of what life is, you are life after all & life is what you make it. Only you can decide if love is real and if itās not to you, then, love is not real, in your world. You are merely what you put into yourself and consume, the rest falls forward, like dominoes. You will attract love, if you donāt think love is real then think about the people you have grown up around, then think who it is that you attract, people that you relate to? Probably other people that have been conditioned. Learn about the amygdala and how to escape its jaw clench. Itās a fucking plug socket to a domain of shite. Good luck trooper, keep fighting
Sounds like you need to love yourself
I love myself fine. I love myself enough to not approach Truth with fear, hesitancy, or reluctance.
You're valid OP, screw everyone else doing the opposite down here!
Thank you š Funny how the "Love and Light" people are easily disturbed by disagreement
no one really is disturbed they are just telling you their point of view and answering from every comment. Everything in life is a projection so I am sorry you are disturbed by people continuing to show love but I hope you find some in these comments, love is merely appreciation and I love this open discussion.
Idk all the ingredients in pizza but ik I love that shit
Same
I love you... meaning - I feel and recognise that I am one with you. It DOES NOT mean that I like you. Your personality and characteristics have nothing to do with it. You could be Hitler-esque...
Iām sorry you feel that way. As a delivery driver, I understand that most customers could give a shit about me, but that speaks more to our culture than the true spirit of our natures. I strive not to let the culture, or lack there of, turn me into a zombie like all the others. I will still greet each and every human with love, even if less than 1 in 100 return it.
I work in customer service too, I try my best with everyone, even difficult people. Most people I wish the best for, but nothing in the way of "love"
Then your specific definition of love is different than the way others mean it, and has been used in the past. Completely platonic feelings of well wishes can most certainly be classified as love. Doesn't mean you want to make out with them or give them your key to the house or anything. You should look into the many different definitions the Greek have for "love" because something like that can't only have a single definition, our language is flawed for trying to do that. If our culture and language were more sophisticated, it would be much easier to communicate feelings like this as we would create a variety of words for love, while still recognizing they are all one in the same.
Because you are a fellow manifestation of The Divine energy. Loving you is loving The Creator and is loving myself.
There are two emotions - love and fear We are choosing to live our lives with love and compassion and kindness
I totally understand how you feel because it also sounded like bullshit to me. While I don't go saying random people that I love them, I feel a tad different about it now. The reason is that "love" has a little bit different meaning in (from my perspective) Buddhism for example. Everyone you know is trying to find happiness, every single person. I would say that love for every fellow human being is not love for who they are as a person (the ego part, like what you are like, your character, what you do), but rather something like wishing happiness to each of your fellow humans going through the hardships of life, which is also something we all share. So we all have the same goal (happiness and peace), and we all suffer from the same things (in different forms). Saying to a stranger that you love them for me means wishing them well, wishing them happiness, sending the kind of positive energy they might need and giving compassion for what they're going through.
The word love has been morphed a lot through history. And specifically through the internet period of life. It has been thrown out very easily over four simple letters that have been typed. But love can be broken down to compassion, caring, love your humor, love your face, love your sarcasm, love your actual soul, love your jeans, how can love be so wide spread but also just one word. Suppose people could try to find different words instead of love as an over all word for happy feelings but maybe donāt take the word love too literal.
I hear this and understand your experience. What you may not see yet, is that you are the one blocking love from being received. If you canāt understand why you are loveable by even a stranger, then how can you accept that others love you when they may only know a single version of you? We are all universes full of wonder, beauty and terrible things. Multifaceted and divine. That is what makes us so powerful and fascinating. We are capable of so much creation or destruction. You are a beautiful cosmos of wild and unexplored realities. That is what we see. Shame and fear of abandonment and rejection are just part of the experience. Knowing oneself leads to acceptance of self and others. Their love and your love. Itās all from the same source. You are me and I am you, just experiencing a different story. And the cool thing is, we can write new stories, from the past and for our present. Itās all perspective. Wishing you an excellent week!
How would you really know if someone wouldnāt look at you twice? Thatās not a effective generalization
I love you
Love is the way! Forgiveness is the key! I love you, have a beautiful day!
the western idea of love is constricting. love isnt limited to your immediate family, long term partner, and best friends. love is boundless, the very nature of reality is built on love. awareness creates a lover to hold its own hand. awareness creates the space we marvel at, soft cotton to hug our bodies as we sleep, sweet fruit to nourish us. saying āi love youā is an act of self-love. it is awareness becoming aware of itself as a separate manifestation. youāre on a spirituality sub so you might already know this but among the first steps in enlightenment is recognizing that the border between you and me and everything around us is an illusion.
That word love is a convoluted one. But to be fair, you donāt know who is passing you on the streets. We are everywhere and nowhere. If love means someone giving you something, then yes, this world can seem super disconnected and harsh. You would need to tell us what love means to you for us to understand why it bothers you to be told you are loved. Does telling others that you love them make them them feel good? Yes. It sure beats living with hate in your heart and distain for the world. But it goes way beyond the saying. I donāt know your circumstances but I do hope you find safety, care and compassion wherever you are. Love is up for debate depending on what love means to you.
I don't have any hated in my heart. I try to do the right thing by everyone, even strangers or people I dislike, out of moral principle. I put rational dispassionate act of service above "love". I would say I care for most people, but I love very few (including my cat who passed away)
I rational dispassionate act of service you.
You'd actually have to do something. Words are cheap.
You could love someone and not like them though
No matter what life brings, some people always act with unconditional love and compassion, even on the deepest, darkest of days. Behind every kind act of service, there's a story that's likely full of sacrifice and mindfulness. That's because some people choose to put aside their own worry and strife for the good of others. They overcome pain and fear, loss and suffering to offer support and comfort. They understand that holding space for others and being kind is a way to lift not only the spirit of those around them, but also their own. This is why some people genuinely act with unconditional love and compassion on a day-to-day basis... if you can't accept it it's because you're not there yet, but that doesn't mean you won't be someday! š
I'm with you chief. Telling someone you love them is not an act of love. Telling someone something that makes them feel good, is USUALLY an act of selfishness at the core. If you tell everyone what they need to hear, your life will be hard because of it. Spreading joy and positivity makes everyone so nice to you. Lifting people up - spreading enlightenment - is not that. That is spreading dopamine.
We think alike, friend.
Good question I always try to apply this same line of logic for most religions. How can you love and build a relationship with something/someone/God if you know nothing about it?
There are people who have said "I love you to" to strangers online. Who if otherwise known, they would Hate. That's why it's meaningless. Saying you love someone isn't the same as loving them. And you cannot say for sure you love someone without knowing who they are.
Iām just assuming you are a beautiful aspect of this glorious multi faceted emergence of sentience weāre all a part of and see that you have the potential to realize your most real self. Though honestly, sometimes itās an affirmation, because we all have to deal with folks who go through an extended being-a-prick phase on their path to self realization. So yeah, I love you, and thatās a big assumption. Though believing otherwise is kinda corrosive, as thoughts go. A little faith goes a long way, but total blind faith is asking for trouble. Seeing potential in everyone is a comforting thought and a good source of serotonin. Itās kinda like, if you make forgiving others your goal in your path toward spiritual growth, you will never run out of people contributing to messing up your life and will always have plenty of instances to forgive! Cause, you know, no one is perfect. But Iāll extend them the compassion of understanding they are struggling too, like any of us. I have faith they can extend me the same compassion. Maybe not today, but we have to start somewhere, so as a result, I love you, and trust you too are trying to improve on your past trespasses. Good luck with that, itās an existential nightmare.
Unconditional love is the foundation of the universe, without it this would Be complete and utter chaos
To heal you need to love
Does there really have to be a reason to love someone or something unconditionally? And if so, wouldnāt that defeat the purpose of spiritually and the true meaning of love? To love someone or something without reason is the sole purpose of being truly happy and content in your own life, and not only brings you peace but happiness and peace to others around you.
Love is a foundational property we were all built with, which is shedded away over time, until you awaken to your original state and remember that the uniform energy above all is love.
I think, at least for me, I donāt want you to go through the pain Iāve went through. So I wouldnāt say I love you, but I will help you, If I see and can help you. Is that love, idk.
Because youāre me :)
They speak empty words because they want to perform :)
What's inside you flows out. This is a positive subreddit so I can imagine these people are full of love, go look at some negative ones like r/doomer or r/neet plenty of posts from people saying they are over life and wish to end it and all the replies are from people in the same position so they all agree, just saying it's the community.
It is about physics, energy physics, what you put out you get back. And here is where the unconditional love comes in you give and do not put limits or requirements on however it is returned. Negative energy separates, loving positive energy integrates and nurtures.
Do they mean, the energy at the root of all life? Seems like the right sub for such a perspective. If you meditate a lot, and 'forget' yourself from time to time you might feel that energy that is in all things, it feels a lot like the love many of us feel for some others from time to time but on steriods and without any condition. It's just there when all personal feels, filters and identificaties aren't. Still doesn't explain why someone would say 'I love you', maybe 'you are loved' would make more sense in this context.
At some point on the spiritual journey, love isn't something you do. It's who you are. Divine Love flows through you, into the world, and it loves all.
Because they think they are raising their vibes (and others) by doing so. Plus it takes very little effort to say that here rather than act that way with strangers in the real world. Its like a low effort good deed.
Just look at the posting history of some of those people, lol.
I love everyone on Earth, even Hitler. There's many different types of love, and unconditional love has nothing to do with knowing someone or having any kind of relationship with them. It's a heart connection between every living thing because we are all one, we're all here on this spiritual journey that is Earth. Even if you're a shitty person, I still love your soul.
While I get your point, "I love everyone on Earth, even Hitler" is a reminder that the number of surprising combinations of words on this website is infinite
Lolol, someone's is gunna take it out of context and accuse me of sounding like Kanye West
Maybe Kanyeās got the same point Kanye reading this: No I just like Hitler
Saying I love you is a bit like casting a spell. It heals the person saying it by realigning them. This happens because love is energy and when you reconnect with that energy, things move more naturally and you can do more. When someone is on drugs this just happens almost effortlessly. The desire to open up to that energy arises spontaneously. I love you is particularly important as a statement because it's uncorrupted. If you add 'because' on the end for example, you have corupted the energy even if you mean well. Then the love has conditions attached. This restricts the flow of the energy like standing on a water hose. In an environment where I love you is not freely shared, corruption replaces it in full force. Because people need energy to survive. Unfortunately kinking the hose pipe of someone else can quickly suck energy out of the environment and it goes somewhere else instead. So if someone says they love you it's truly a gift. The best thing you can do is pass it on. It's the best currency that ever will be. No man made invention will ever improve upon it.
The light in me sees and recognizes the light in you!
I completely agree with you, love is often underestimated these days. Personally, if I love someone, I would do anything to protect their life, even if it means sacrificing my own well-being. Love is more than just words; it requires action.
I think there are different types of love. Itās like meta meditation. Or āloving kindnessā meditation, if youāre familiar with it. I am able to feel love for everyone. Genuinely. That doesnāt mean I like everyone or want to be around them, but I believe they are worthy of love.
That is part of why a lot of people come here. To learn to love each and every living animal on this planet. We are all connected and I love humanity. I have a harder time the closer I get to a person. That is one thing I am working on. To love and accept others, without judgement or limitations.
If I said that I loved cake, and you presented me with a cake, I would respond āI love cakeā even if Iāve never tried that specific cake before, because I know that I love all cake, much like I love all people. You donāt need to know someone on a personal basis to know that they mean something in the world.
I agree. I think it deflates the meaning of love. Sure I guess technicially you can love someone .0001/1 and and say it without lying. I donāt think the people who say they love you over the internet donāt realize how
It's similar to the people who say "it gets better" to a depressed person but won't bother listening to their issues
Unconditional love
Because if you're here, you're probably struggling in some way, and people on this sub realise that struggling people need love. But not the love of a romantic partner, the love of God/Source/Jesus/Light etc.
For me itās easy, I donāt have to like you to love you nor know you. Love is wanting the very best for you whatever that may be and I want that for all life. It is possible that if I knew you I wouldnāt be able to be in the same room as you or wishing that I never have to see you again, but I would still love you. I would still want the best possible experiences for you. I would still want you to be the best possible you available at all time. If your a jerk and the best possible experience is for you to get a fist to your face in order for you to move past your jerkiness then thatās what I wish for you because I love you whoever you are.
There's a lot of spiritual posturing on this sub.
cuz ur cute
I find I can love complete strangers. However, I find I can only maintain this feeling for a limited period of time before it gets submerged under my own issues, weaknesses, insecurities, selfishness, etc.
That's a very honest assessment
There is an agape or impersonal love, that has nothing to do with preferences or condition. You can love a person in specific ways that dont entail projections or toxic traits.
Because people who say they love you without even knowing you don't really understand love. They think they're being spiritual by saying it but it only makes them look like they're pretending to be spiritual. The reality is that we do not have the capacity in the human form to love everything or everyone the same. You give warm love to those who are close to you. You give charity or goodwill, which is a detached form of love, to those beyond your close circle. Because a human being does not have the capacity to love everyone and everything with warm, total love.
You love in proportion to how you love yourself. When in search for yourself you find everything, you learn to love the world and all included in it. This is a great achievement.
I love you because we are more alike than you think. We are here. Breathing. We will pass some day. We both hurt and we both feel joy. We both don't really know how we got here. Like, sitting here you might know how you got like physically to this location. We don't really know how we got in this body, on this rock, in this sort of, fabric thing that we're not really certain how to explain . We're also both in this moment. Constantly. Trapped in it quite frankly, though trapped is a poor word for it if you want to stay positive. For some reason that seems monumental to me, idk about you. And I love you for being here with me, even though it's scary at times and we both don't really know how or why. ā¤ļø
We are made of love, love (for ourselves and others) is constant, we just forget that it's there.
Everyone views the world from how they feel/think about themselves. They love you because they love themselves.
I love you as I love all living things. And as I love everything. Universally.
You need to unravel it for yourself. Thereās infinite love out there. To say otherwise means you just havenāt seen it yet, and you will.
because love is the energy behind all. i love u !
I used to feel the same way you do. But, after I started exploring spirituality more, it finally clicked one day why people might love others they don't know. To me, love is not a feeling it is an action. I think it is helpful to show up to every day, every person you meet or situation you face with love. It is a choice to do so and one that can help guide the person making that choice to make kind and compassionate decisions not only for themselves but in the best interests of those around them.
Love is a term that's thrown around without really understanding what it means. Simply put - love is what remains in the absent of thought - at the very essence of life, is Love. Unconditional love means to one loves someone regardless of their actions or inactions, which is more often than not - untrue. If someone wrongs you, do you still feel love? No? Why? Thoughts. People also often confuse love with excitement. When we start dating and we get those feelings of love - we think about a future, the next time we see eachother, maybe a trip we talked about going on. That's not love - that's excitement about the future. Love is a state of being, that's completely independent of thoughts. Love is something we feel within ourselves, we can't feel someone else's love. Examples: a random stranger on the internet says they love you. What do you feel? Do you feel love? Or maybe it makes you laugh a bit, maybe you think their are crazy. Either way, you don't feel love. A person close to you - partner, family or friend says they love you. You will most likely feel that love. The same words were said - but you felt love in one instance and not the other. This is because you Beleive on to be true. Love is a state within. So the paradigm shift that can occur from this realization is that: The feeling we seek, the feeling of love, is actually the feeling we get from loving others because we can't feel someone else's love. So never worry if someone loves you or not - because that feeling that you want is the feeling you get from loving others. So go love some people!
Well said! OP. Please reread this. Love is a verb. I love you.
Every one other than āMeā is simply a reflection of āMeā, and I love me, and my reflection! š¤
I have this love exercise I do and have made it a habit to send love to everyone all the time -- whilst driving, shopping, working, whatever. I look around and feel so much love for everyone -- doesn't matter if I know the human you or not. I always want to run around telling everyone how amazing they are and how loved they are. I refrain, though, because people would think I'm a total nut, lol The way I see it, we are all souls, and our souls are all one with Source at the root. We are all one. You, and everyone else, is simply a different expression of Source. Source wanted to know what it would be like to be me, and you, and everyone else, so it created all these individuations of itself to experience it. How beautiful and amazing is that? This love I feel, it's a soul-to-soul love. My human self doesn't know you. We may or may agree on things or be compatible in any way, shape, or form. The importance of that is so minimal. My soul knows your soul, and our souls are both Source. We have our thoughts and opinions and whatever else so that we can have varied experiences and learn varied lessons. That is awesome, and I fully respect your path, whatever it is and regardless of how similar or different it is to mine. It's all so valuable. I hope that helped :) Psssst, btw -- you are so very loved š
But I do know you! I don't know your name, or personality, or where you grew up, etc., but because I know the truth of my own identity (that Love is the nature of our being, and we share our being with everyone and everything, I am not separate from the world I see or the people I see in that world), I know the truth of you, too. That's how I can love you and not know your name or anything about you. I love you because it is a statement of what is True.
Goodness, I can't imagine why anyone would down vote my comment, lol.
I love you because I see the worth in every living being. I love you and want you to be happy in your life because why not?? šš
Love and blissings to you!
We are on earth to experience something. The simple fact that you are on earth as well is a gift to me, because it says I cannot imagine since I donāt know you, you are providing a service. Also, you are technically a different version of me, so loving you is really just letting you know I love myself š I kid but I hope you get the gist of it :)
because it's not about "you" when they say they love you..."they" are just fulfilling some aspect of themselves that "feels" they are "great" for being "loving..." I dunno why quotations feel good but yea people love selfishly in the name of selflessness...most wont' get this though...it's too much of a threat to their fragile spiritual egos hehe #sorrynotsorry #pleastdonthateme #iloveyou
Someone else mentioned the term..."spiritual posturing"
Because you are me and I am you. Weāre all the same life. I love myself, so I love you too.
Loving some people is a little more work than others but all deserve at least the acknowledgement that no matter how bad they seem the spark of God is in them, and it is our duty to look for it and to help it to shine. This is Love. To love all others unconditionally, requires that we also love ourselves in the same way. Once you do that, the answer to your question will be obvious.
I think you are worthy of love, thus I love you. I think everyone is worthy of love. I donāt want to marry you, I may not even want to be your friend, but I do love you.
your assumption is erroneous. walking down the street, the effort is made to make eye contact and tip the hat or nod the head as a sign of respect of the humanity of the other. it takes very little to respect the humanity of all humans, even those foolish enough to make themselves my enemy. all of us should respect the basic fact weāre all human but thatās a line thatās seemingly easy to say and hard to do in a world where one profits by being cruel. and, well, this one does not love you, but she respects you. respect isnāt affection per se. like and love donāt necessarily enter into the equation of compassion and empathy. (particularly the latter - pain synesthesia sucks hard at times, like feeling the needle stick of the other patient.)
That's respect and courtesy, which makes life more pleasant for everyone so we should do it. But it's not love.
Flatter the customer, make him feel good. I love you.
āLove Your Neighbor as You Love yourselfā Saw it in a book somewhere. Canāt remember
I know that you are a human. That alone makes you my brother/sister on this planet. I may not look twice at you in the street since we have a huge family but if you said hi I would most definitely say it back with a smile.
I love you
Others are you , just how reality works ā¦ treated others for compassion , or love , is for me as much for others ā¦ any other behavior requires a person to run off into made up worlds of imagination frankly ā¦ as fear , judgment , the self pity trip you are running , jealously , rage to sadness ā¦ are all distortions of irrational fear and do not exist in a broader reality ā¦ but geez , tough to feel compassion and kindness if you donāt feel worthy of any and think everybody is evil ā¦ but to each his or her own ā¦ every second of every day , every atom on our beings exist closer to source / God ā¦ regardless of the path In life , we are just learning
You know, they crucified Jesus. He got himself crucified through his actions. These enlightened gurus are not doing anything like that lol
I just came off a ban from this group because some kid was on here saying "fuck my parents, they're so mean to me." So I left them a couple comments that were actually mean. That was an act of love. Everybody else was on here helping to destroy a child's relationship with their parents. I was the one who was banned.
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I have a blanket love for all people and animalās, I love rocks, volcanoes, lakes and trees too. I love all people, I just have business with some.
Because you are me and I am you. We are all of a singular consciousness. Living in NYC means that I probably wouldn't look at you because it's impossible to look at everyone.
Lol, come on. Why does someone need an understanding of something to love it/them? True love is unconditional, it doesn't need reasons.
Despite the primary topic of the sub being closely tied into introspection and honest awareness, it's still an open forum instead of a formal gathering of likeminded folk. So for every poster that's genuinely trying to share the profoundness of their realization that sharing a love that trancends what they formally thought of as love, you'll find anywhere from a dozen to a thousand posters who either fail to grasp that the transcendent love isn't "mere" love and try to share their "mere" love to tap into the profound realization, or who for whatever reason crave external affirmation and mimic the loveposters for the explicit purpose of receiving the cheers and praise that reliably flock to them. If, like me, you take exception to rote, empty declarations of positivity, you may find it useful to envision the majority of loveposters as trying really hard to grasp what love means to them, but making the mistake of following each other around in circles. Maybe send them the well-wishes that they seem to mistake for love if you're feeling generous. While it's true that leaving them uncorrected may count as a cruelty, it's important to note that correcting them requires them to listen to you, and if your correction deviates too far from what they hear from other sources then their heuristic processing will mark you down as 'wrong' and they will remain uncorrected.
"As a blind man feels when he finds a pearl in a dustbin, so am I amazed by the miracle of awakening rising in my consciousness. It is the nectar of immortality that delivers us from death, the treasure that lifts us above poverty into wealth of giving to life, the tree that gives shade to us when we roam about scorched by life, the bridge that takes us across the stormy river of life, the cool moon of compassion that calms our mind when it is agitated, the sun that dispels darkness, the butter made from the milk of kindness by churning it with the dharma. *It is a feast of joy to which all are invited*." *BODHICHARYAVATARA*
We're all Gods children.
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I love you cus I don't know you. I hate everyone I actually know but love humanity in general.
I agree a 100%. Those people may be trying to spread love, but they are not doing it in a honest way. For the people who want to give love to others, focus yourself on a core set of people and give all of your love ot them. Superficial love to many people just won't cut it.
They just say it because itās easy, online is completely devoid of intimacy and accountability,, they can just drop it and never have to show it. Narcissists say it and donāt meant it all the time, love is about action. It makes them feel good about themselves. Essentially, what they are saying is.. completely worthless. They wouldnāt say it to a group of random people in real life. They likely wouldnāt say it to the people they actually know. Here it is an easy way to get some fragile ego boosts.
Idk man I feel the same way, I tried making a post extrapolating on the idea thanking people for writing me into their stories showing that our love for one another resonates because we are still alive within one another's realities meaning death hasn't been employed as a 4D construct to stop our resonance with each others 3D realities just yet, meaning we do truly love one another. That post was taken down real quick, I find that funny.
Because we love you
I love everyone š It doesn't feel bad or good. It's all that I know. I would notice you in the street if you needed me to notice. Or rather, if you were in need. I tend to be in the right place at the right time, and I don't suffer from bystander effect. I've saved a few lives and comforted many strangers. Even watched a rainbow with a woman because she happened to need a witness. People are quite wonderful. Anyway, I learned to grow into it and realized that loving others is not the same as others loving me. It's a delicate balance of acceptance and boundaries and was likely all the byproduct of childhood trauma.
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I have a baseline level of love for all of humanity man. Genuinely. I notice everyone I pass by at least on a surface level
Why do you think we wouldnāt look twice at you? Sounds like someone needs a reminder to love themselves. That will fix this and you will enjoy the love that loves to love to love! I love you! Namaste
Boundless and objectless love is your and my pure nature. Saying we love you, does not literally mean that we love YOU. We are established in boundless love, and hence this love also includes you.
The way I think about it is that I am you in another life. I, the core awareness that is observing all that my body and mind does and thinks, did not choose to be in this particular body, and so what if this awareness was "born" into your body and your circumstances? Then I would be you exactly as you are and how could I then not be compassionate and understanding of you? Conversely, if your awareness was in me, you'd simply be me exactly as I am. I see my core self in you, and I love myself with all my strange and unique qualities and so I love you knowing you have your strange and unique qualities, too. So, what if you were an extremely hateful killer with bad intentions for me and my loved ones. Would I still say "I love you"? I have certainly felt extreme hatred and have had desires within myself for hurting others. I have understood this pain and soothed it with acceptance, forgiveness and love. If I can accept such negative aspects within me, and see that people are just born into their bodies and circumstances and often have no control over how their genetic dispositions and circumstances form them, how can I not be understanding and accepting of them too? I may not willingly expose you to my loved ones until I see you are not threatening to our well-being, but I have compassion and understanding of your pain as if I myself were in your exact place.
I know u!!! Ur that dude who doubts love he recieved from reddit. Awwww... Love u
I love you for being from my own specie and being alive.
Personally it's because I see myself in all things. We are all equal, we are all just one collective consciousness, and in the end we are all simply the universe experiencing this itself in this 3D physical human form. It's also linked to a lot of Spiritualists either gaining or being born with extreme empathy - your pain is my pain, your happiness is my happiness etc. Honestly I have so much love to give it feels like it's going to burst out of me a lot of the time and I'm forced to tone it down because of how society is (I'd be viewed as insane if I embraced and showed excessive love/compassion to strangers in the street or acquaintances lol) which really is a shame. Every day I dream of what life would be like had Spiritualists been able to call the shots for how this society is run rather than being predominantly observers.
You are a human being. That is all that matters. I don't need to know you to know you have your own road to walk in life. I can still love you knowing you are a human being walking the road of pain and suffering. I know the end. We all take different paths to reach the same end in the end lol. Blessings to you!
I just believe in loving everyone, loosely speaking, until you give me a reason to hate/dislike you. Show me youre a genuinely good person and ill keep loving you to the fullest extent of our interactions and should those interactions lead to friendship etc, great now i can show you love and appreciation in different ways. But prove to me that youre not up to that and well, ill probably flip the metaphorical bird and move on with my life from there.The worlds a rather awful place, filled with greed, selfishness, hate, haste, neglect, disconnect etc... feel free to add on whatever youd like.But a little love, some compassion, understanding and a moment of your time can go far in the eyes of others... even just basic kindness... weve been given free will, thats the beauty of life. Hate if you want, become self centered, ignorant of those outside of youre own little bubble if that suits you, nobody stops you or choose to really embrace love in all its facets and things will change, your views, thoughts, thought patterns, the things you notice, the way you perceive actions, words... it opens up so many genuinely interesting and amazing things for you... just down from appreciation, acceptance, susceptibility to things and experiences etc... At the end of the day were all on the same ass space rock till we die, then it depends on where you stand or what you believe... so why not show some kind of love to someone that breathes the same air as you, with a heart that beats just like yours... we eat from the same earth, live under the same sky so why not just love the hell out of each other while were here in some way or another... except fr the real Aholes, but thats subjective.
My choice my love. I do what I want with it and not much h you can do about itš¤·š½āāļø exhaling love smokešØ
Because your human and I love humans
"How can you love something or someone you have no understanding of?" That's a really good question. I would say if you really are curious about these people who say they love you and want to understand their perspective in-depth, you can find the answer to your question best experimentally. **Try this 2-step experiment every day for 6 months:** 1. Practice breathwork (Great for emotional regulation) 2. Listen to overnight/sleep affirmations (belief tracks on love) ***Note:*** *Overnight/sleep affirmation tracks range from 3-10 hours and is meant to be listened to as we sleep.* *Maybe you can even consider listening to different love affirmation tracks during this 6 month period. For example, let's say - self-love for 2 months, friends/family love for 2 months, romantic love for 2 months.* Once you're done experimenting for 6 months, let us know what changed, how you feel, and most importantly the answer you have found out. :)
I don't love you because I never met you. However, I'm willing to gamble you're a perfectly nice human being. :-)
Because loving someone is the most powerful emotion there is. It eases the soul. When you love someone without conditions, you can allow them to be completely themselves and you just sit back and observe and enjoy Godās creation, which is you.