Most of us have been confused about love all of our lives. In fact, we often begin what I called “soul searching” - whether searching —conscious or unconscious—for a source of love that can't be taken away. We may have grown up feeling unloved or believing we had to perform larger-than-life feats to deserve love.
Our parents, the movies we see, our cultural and religious environments give us ideas about love that go on influencing us long after we have forgotten their source.
You have read spiritual books and encounter spiritual teachers, and now your understanding about love is even more complicated, because depending on what you read or whom you studied, you get slightly different takes on what love means in spiritual life.
I have heard some Yoga teachers state that our essence is love; others say love is a passion, an emotion that leads to addiction and clinging. Again, from personal experience God is LOVE and LOVE is God.
In Yoga terms, the way to enlightenment is to fall in love with God and let that love grow until it absorb you and you become one with the Father.
Where to start in the Word? See John 3:16.
Much love,
Joseph
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