Seek to Practice Unconditional Love
Seek to love both yourself and others unconditionally. The feeling of love provides a vast protection against all forms of ills, including other, less desirable emotional states. “But… Love Hurts” you say? Actually, it’s not love that hurts, it’s the feelings generated by a perception of lack of love; the jealousy, anger, fear, sadness, or resentment, that really hurts us. Those are the harmful emotional states, both for your body and mind. Love is the opposite, as well as the most powerful cure for all those other states. Love is the best possible addiction you can have, but if you’re not used to it, it will take conscious practice to begin the process of re-habituation. Ara says: “What I am most interested in generally about emotions is the apparent paradox of not letting them control you, while still being honest and true to yourself. I could not dissociate from my […]
