Paul Campbell3
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joined Feb 2004
As soon as there’s a subject, there’s an object. You bring in the "I," and suddenly there's a "YOU."
When you use a word like "devotion," you've already started labeling things. The logic follows: there's always an object, whether someone tries to follow that whole "loving myself" nonsense 😁 or focuses on you.
After a striptease, there isn't an "I" or a "you" left.
🙂
It just hit me recently: LOVE is a RELATIONSHIP.
Think about it like this:
The "I" projects. But once the actor "strips down"—and let's face it, that actor doesn't even really exist—it's no longer an agent performing an action. Instead, a fact simply occurs. LOVE manifests itself through the void, stripped of all attributes.
In reality, even that manifestation is just a mental construct, and it's the "I" that goes around slapping adjectives onto love.
None of this is actually a "problem"—not until you start trying to define what love is, or what the "I" is, or how the relationship works.
That's why the only thing we can do here is BABBLE about what love *isn't*, because what it actually IS cannot be put into words.
So yeah, LOVE is an illusion—not because it doesn't exist, but because from the perspective of JAJAaa, it's impossible to grasp or describe. 😲
We view love through a "privileged perspective" because it's the very first step where our individual consciousness "turns" toward another individual consciousness—basically, the "I" turns toward the "YOU."
The truth is:
It's a single "force" that binds and connectssss, but it definitely doesn't come from JAJAaa! 🙂
Go with the flow..👋