A Meditation On The Concept Of Love (Personal And Universal)

I wrote a prose about the concept of love. I wrote down my thoughts and believe that it may be helpful to some people as a meditation. I move between beginnings and endings, between conditional love and unconditional love, and dig into the concept in a poetic way without some type of agenda. However, this is not for those that are into an angry monotheistic god.

Transcript

Hello and welcome to this short meditation on love. My name is Paul Kraus. I'm a licensed professional counselor. And this is not counseling. And this is a free meditation on Insight Timer. And thank you for listening to this and other meditations that I have recorded. Nothing in this meditation needs to be true for you. These are just things I've written. And perhaps it might help you. So for this meditation, You don't have to do anything special. Just breathing like normal. Walking, Sitting are both fine. My only request is that. . . As you breathe, You breathe out slowly. I don't care if you do a deep breath or a short breath, Just breathe out slowly, Elongating the breath on the way out. And that's it. Here we go. In love. First, Understand that all love is conditional. But do not despair. Conditions are essential for life. Otherwise, No carbon life form survives. Conditions are essential for birth. Conditions are essential for survival. Conditions are everywhere to those evolving. Conditions are what makes both separation and melding. Possible. Second, Unconditional love is a cosmic feeling both inside and outside of you. It does not seem to originate in this dimension that you are living in. It comes across the divide and void like a warm radio wave from a distant star. Unconditional love from an angry god is a preposterous and misleading myth that is spread by those who would control you and try to control the earth. Third, Control thyself in both control and uncontrol with wild abandon. Let go of expectations. Let go of most of your conditions. Let down your walls and feel that unconditional love radiating from another universe and dimension in time to connect with you and the one you have conditionally chosen and want to celebrate the ritual with and joined. Fourth, Do not stop, Ever. What you do. When you have love, Will not be stopped. 5. Somehow Just as all things begin, All things will end. You do not have to figure this out. We're all trying to figure this out. Sixth, Somewhere and somehow love survives and still burns into a collapsing and expanding future. 7th Eternity In all is a mind-boggling, Fast disintegration and integration and intersection. And beyond our comprehension. The more we try to understand eternity or time, The more out of reach it becomes. Beauty. Remember that beauty is everywhere. We view things and label them as beautiful or ugly or somewhere in between based on our lens. But beauty is the default. We may be blind to this beauty. There is beauty in love. There is love in beauty. You don't have to be in love to love. You don't have to sacrifice everything to love. Remember. Love is there, But not always from the source you seek. Sometimes there is nothing above and nothing below. And in that time. You have time, And are granted time to love. And love. And be in love. And do not despair. And have love.