Realization I had about Love

[Tristan12]

A few weeks ago I was contemplating something about the nature of love and I had this huge insight that really changed my perspective on things. It felt like more than just an insight and more like a direct experience because my perspective and direct experience changed so radically.

I basically realized why you can love anything when in a high enough state of consciousness. I saw that at a Being level, the reason you would love something is totally different than why a human would love something. Humans love things because they serve them or appeal to their survival in some way, and anything that goes against that, they can't love.

In a higher state of consciousness where survival is not a concern and there is only Being, having a preference for one thing over another is ridiculous and completely unnecessary. I realized that when you say that you could love something like being ugly as well as being attractive, its not just the case that you are not against being ugly and you could accept and embrace it if you were ugly, but if you had the choice you would still choose to be attractive, its actually that there is literally no benefit whatsoever to being attractive over being ugly, from a Being perspective, and you can desire to be ugly just as much as you might desire to be attractive.

At this level the thing that makes you love is not how the thing can benefit you, you love it for what it is, as a part of yourself, you being the whole and everything. You love and desire negative things just as much as the positives because it is just another way of being yourself and embracing yourself, and just being able to do that is what makes you love.

This was a huge shift in perspective for me realizing this, and I find that even weeks later after that realization I have had quite a large shift in my ability to love seemingly negative things that would have been a lot harder to love before.

I just wanted to share this with you guys and see if you had any input.

[somegirl]

10 minutes ago, Tristan12 said:

You love and desire negative things just as much as the positives because it is just another way of being yourself and embracing yourself, and just being able to do that is what makes you love.

This sounds interesting. It is logical in some paradoxical sense. 

How does one raise consciousness though? How long did it take you to come to this realization and shift in perspective? 

[Tristan12]

@somegirl I guess it just comes from continuous spiritual practice and putting in the work to raise your consciousness. For myself I'm not at a point in my life where I'm ready to go all out on spirituality, I am still young and have a career to build. The only spiritual work I have done is meditating an hour a day for the past two years, and I have watched probably hundreds of hours of Leo's videos and done a good amount of contemplating in my spare time just because I really love it.

I find at this point I get these sorts of realizations fairly often just through contemplating things. I think this particular realization I had after watching some edit of Leo's videos that someone posted in the forum. I was contemplating about love after I watched it and all the sudden what I wrote above really clicked for me and I really got it, whereas before when I would hear Leo talk about it, it was just an idea and I didn't have any direct experience of it.

Here's the video by the way: