“Love is not a toy in a box.”
What we are unaware of. . . doesn’t exist, for us. What we are aware of, exists because of awareness.
Fantasy is a kind of unfulfilled existence. We are spirit because of our awareness.
We are not spirit. We exist because of matter and spirit. “Spirit” doesn’t need us to exist, awareness acknowledges spirit’s existence.
Love is not stimulated neural chemistry, passion nor euphoria of feelings other than knowledge. Love is not an erection.
Love is acknowledgment of existing. It is not about what the personality wants, likes, or believes. It is acknowledgment that transcends personal judgment, tastes, feelings, beliefs, desires, projections or illusory images.
One of the mysteries of existence is the acknowledgement of love, given as validation to another in awareness, i.e. who they are and be, not about what I or we like.
When the self becomes aware of itself—and all else—we can transcend that which distorts in desiring, taking command of the body’s senses in biological existing. Observing the self enables it to reach beyond its own biology into open mind—mindfulness in vision—so as to expand the awareness of all that exists, thus acknowledging cosmos rather than seeking for it to be one’s servant, which is ego’s obsession, filling perception with distortions.
We do not need to know the details about the “other” to be acknowledged in existing. As perception expands, we extend our knowledge and awareness of that which is seen in open vision—joining in cosmic awareness.
Reflection in awareness enables participation in the purposefulness of biological life, which is to create and evolve in mind as a tool of perception, a tool of acknowledgement in which cosmos is “Finding” its existence in its scattered experience of explosive parting in the “Big Bang” of its beginning.
The human has evolved a “mind”, acknowledging cosmos. Our purpose in biological evolution is to be enabled in acknowledging all and everything through mindfulness. This is true love.
Acknowledgment is not about who one thinks, feels, believes or wants what’s observed to be; it is about what mindfulness observes and sees in awareness.