Sacred Love

                 Love is universal by nature! It was not meant to be categorized nor defined because it is intrinsically pure and unconditional. But man gave it a meaning and categorized it which polluted the very essence of it. Love shouldn’t be selective or conditional because of its universality. My thoughts of love might be jaded because of the way it was presented to me when I was growing up, but I still believe love in its purest form.

                 Loving a person doesn’t have to be under the condition of what is dictated by the norms. You love someone not because you are physically attracted but because you feel that your souls are connected in the universe. The true essence of love transcends beyond the physicality! Love is the union of souls!

                 We were conditioned to believe that both mind and heart are responsible for love. Well, I beg to disagree! In the physical world, no one really owns anyone. A persons mind and heart cannot be yours alone. True love for me is conquering the soul!

Love is something SACRED, NAMELESS, and TIMELESS! When you learn to love a person beyond the physical, psychological, and emotional level then you have found the real meaning of love.

                 Some of you may call it idealistic, pathetic, or you might find it impossible because of the realities that we face each day of our lives. We all say that love is something that just happens and you can’t force yourself to love someone. Well, I also used to believe that until I came across reading a line from one of my favorite books. Reading that line made me realize that all my thoughts about love was just a form of rationalization because I am afraid to get hurt. (Well I guess all of us do)

                 In that book, it is said that “You do not make yourself love, you allow love to enter you.” When I read that, it struck me that all my life I was searching for love in the wrong places. I was so caught up with the idea that one day I’m going to find love. I became a slave to my own conditions and standards of what I want with love. I kept comparing myself with those people who have someone and I kept thinking that I was not attractive or interesting enough for someone to love me. Little by little, my insecurities were killing the real me. It made me feel so inadequate for anyone that I meet. Because of this I lost my freedom. I was limiting myself to those persons that I thought would make me feel that love is present in my life. I felt like that a part of me died and I always looked for people who will make me feel alive even just for once. “I mean, as much as you want to, you can't rely on someone else to make you feel alive. It's an inside job.” (Jen, Dawson’s Creek)
Well, I was wrong because love is only present when someone is free. A person who loves fully, truthfully, wholeheartedly, and unconditionally is someone who feels free and alive.

                 Although it is impossible to achieve pure love, I would still continue to believe in this because at the end of the day I would still prefer to be free. Pure love would only exist when there is freedom from all of the things that prevents us from loving someone.

                 For now, I would say that pure love only exists in our dreams. But I’ve also heard that when you dream of something or someone, it means that your soul left the physical world and became a part of the universe in which all things are connected. I do believe in that because dreams come from inside your heart and are carried out by the soul in a form of energy that can make you see and appreciate the real beauty and uniqueness of every person. Once you see that beauty, then you can extend from there and get to see their soul. That’s love in its purest form! The love that was given to us by God to make every being in this universe with whom they are most connected with love each other without the interference of the physical world.

                 Let me end this by quoting a line from the animation film Beauty and the Beast. “Do not be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within.”