How to communicate Love to those more materially minded?

[Shane Hanlon]

How does one communicate the depth of Love and how core it is to reality to those who are quick to reduce it to a survival mechanism happening in the brain? Similar to fight or flight response.

I struggle with this. Does it require personal experience? I'm not talking about lost cause dogmatic materialism, but rather those who are open minded and hearted and are open to other explanations but they struggle to grasp the immensity and pervasiveness of Love.

[Atb210201]

Oh it's easy just tell them you love materials so much that's the proof of the existence of their love

[Shane Hanlon]

3 hours ago, Atb210201 said:

Oh it's easy just tell them you love materials so much that's the proof of the existence of their love

LOL something tells me that wouldn't work very well

[ChrisZoZo]

Love is the most fundamental material it doesn’t come from people. You only create circumstances where other people can better absorber of the love they are. The more loving you are the more you’re able to open up other people to love around you. So simply just work on yourself when you can become more loving and the love will guide you to make them more loving. 

[Shane Hanlon]

15 minutes ago, ChrisZoZo said:

Love is the most fundamental material it doesn’t come from people. You only create circumstances where other people can better absorber of the love they are. The more loving you are the more you’re able to open up other people to love around you. So simply just work on yourself when you can become more loving and the love will guide you to make them more loving. 

This is incredibly important and might just be the only way, but often times I find that these people require understandable coherent explanations as well. Explanations that I struggle to find since Love is beyond rationality or explanation. Still, I think it would be worth having a better answer than I currently do.

[Atb210201]

39 minutes ago, Shane Hanlon said:

LOL something tells me that wouldn't work very well

If you want to prove to them transcendental love that's something they have to experience and feel it's got more to do with feeling than with rationality so nobody can actually prove the feeling of love everyone experiences it but the failures people go through in their relationships makes them feel like it is all a lie and illusion.

So they just have to experience it once again in order to believe in it again.

The best you can say is just wait till you fall in love with someone again.

Edited 22 hours ago by Atb210201

[Inliytened1]

4 hours ago, Shane Hanlon said:

How does one communicate the depth of Love and how core it is to reality to those who are quick to reduce it to a survival mechanism happening in the brain? Similar to fight or flight response.

I struggle with this. Does it require personal experience? I'm not talking about lost cause dogmatic materialism, but rather those who are open minded and hearted and are open to other explanations but they struggle to grasp the immensity and pervasiveness of Love.

You have to experience Absolute Love otherwise you aren't going to grasp it.  The only thing they have to understand is human love or finite love which you could call one of the human emotions.   They won't understand Love at a spiritual level.  But human love is very powerful. Don't underestimate it.  It can leave you suffering badly which could in turn lead to an awakening to Absolute Love.

[ChrisZoZo]

2 hours ago, Shane Hanlon said:

This is incredibly important and might just be the only way, but often times I find that these people require understandable coherent explanations as well. Explanations that I struggle to find since Love is beyond rationality or explanation. Still, I think it would be worth having a better answer than I currently do.

Another way might be by finding connections because love is connection. Only other thing I can think of.