The Loving Soul Anonymous

The Loving Soul Anonymous The Loving Soul Copyright © 2012 Actual Truth Publishing ACTUAL TRUTH PUBLISHING www.actualtruth.org All rights reserved. Smashwords Edition Publishers Cataloging in Publication Data Anonymous The Loving Soul Smashwords Edition License Notes: This ebook is licensed only for the use of the person who downloaded it. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please download an additional copy for each recipient. Furthermore, the copyright prohibits the copying and/or plagiarizing of any of the text contained in this book. For my Teachers: Whose love opened my heart Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 1. EMPTINESS 2. WHAT IS TRUE LOVE? 3. THE BIGGEST MYSTERY 4. THE LOVING HOME 5. OUR SOUL MATE 6. THE PLEASURE SEEKER 7. BEAUTY AND ATTRACTION 8. SEEING LOVE 9. A RELIGION OF LOVE 10. SUFFERING 11. WHERE IS HELL? 12. TAKING LOVE’S PATH Conclusion: THE LOVING SOURCE Introduction Today our society throws the word “love” around as if it were a flag or emblem. We might invoke this “love” to communicate our dedication or our commitment to something or someone. “I just love that,” we might say about an activity or material object. “I would love to go,” we might blurt as we suggest our inclination for an activity. Often people say, “I love you” to our family members as a matter of responsibility— feeling we are communicating the need to respect our genetic connections. We might also proclaim our love to our spouses or mates as an obligatory statement—professing our allegiance to them only. What exactly is love? What is the true meaning of love? Where does it come from? Why do we all have this common need for love? Certainly, love is not just a word. It is one of most important aspects of being alive. We all need it. We need it from the time our bodies are born to the time of their demise. All of our family members need it. All of our friends need. Every politician needs it. Every famous person has needed it. Every king has needed it. Every slave has needed it. Every poor person and every rich person needs it. No one has been able to escape the need for love. Love is not just needed by every human either. Every animal needs it. This is quickly observed among pets and their masters. The pet wants to be stroked and cared for. If it is a dog, for example, the dog wants to run and get the ball or bone we throw and bring it back to us. If it is a cat, it wants to cuddle up to its master and be stroked. We can also easily see that animals need love as they go about their lives in the wild. Even the most vicious of animals—such as the tiger—needs the stroking, fondling and playfulness of their mothers and fathers as they are reared. Even fish perform dancingly swim to impress their mates and find union with another fish. Even insects perform mating ceremonies, as the males or females attract the other sex. Every living being needs some form of love and attention from others. As we travel up the scale of consciousness, from plants to animals, we find the activities of love between living organisms become clearer and expressive. In the human form of life, we are able to more completely express love. Because of our refined evolution, intelligence, mind and brain, we have the ability to discern between the physical aspects of mating rituals and the feeling of true love that has no physical boundaries in its finest and purest manner: That is, if we come to understand it. While many scientists are proposing love is merely a biochemical or animalistic sexual urge, most of us know better. Must of us know better because we feel love when there is no sex at issue. We feel love when there is no genetic qualification. This inner feeling tells us love is a deeper part of us. This collection of essays covers some of the finer aspects of love, as they relate to the self—the living being. Here we emphasize the self as distinguished from the physical body: The real person within the temporary physical body. This personality—our self—is the central character of the discussions of love. This is because only the self is able to exchange love. The physical body is simply a temporary vehicle of the self. One physical body may touch another physically, but touching hardly defines love. We might see two sets of couples walking down the street, both holding hands. One couple might be exchanging love while the other is not, however. Although handholding might be an expression of loving feelings, it could also be done without the feelings. This is because love comes from the self, not from the physical body. We should further clarify the difference between the physical body and the self before we delve further into the topic of love. We have done this more specifically and scientifically in The Science of Faith. To summarize the points made there, we can explain that while the self is changeless and eternal, the physical body is temporary—undergoing dramatic change throughout its short lifetime. We can see this when we notice that our body as a baby was quite different from our adult body. Yet the same person inhabited both bodies. The person looking at a picture of the baby body is the same person who was in the baby body years earlier. We also instinctively accept this when we look in the mirror as we age. We are surprised at the amount of wrinkles and grey hair growing on our bodies. For this reason, many people strive to make their bodies look younger than they really are. Here the self—the real person—is feeling an incongruity between the body and our real identity. This identity is confirmed by science. Researchers have determined that every cell of the body has a limited lifetime, whereupon it is replaced through mitosis. While intestinal cells may only last a day or two, skin cells will be replaced within a week. Blood cells will be replaced within a month. Brain cells will be replaced within a few years. Nearly every cell in our body is replaced within five years. ... - tailieumienphi.vn