If you truly love all your problems and personal
difficulties disappear because all so-called problems arise from the belief in
separateness. Love is a uniting force and naturally and effortlessly simplifies
your personal existence. Thus to truly love makes you blissfully aware of the
all-encompassing unity of all forms of life and makes you feel entirely at one
with it. If, on the other hand, your love should render your life more
complicated it is not love but misplaced desire caused by unresolved feelings. Therefore
any desire, besides the craving after union with God, is invariably connected
to your past and hints at personal issues to be resolved within the self.
Even in cases where your desire is projected onto
another person, making you believe that you are unable to resolve it on your
own and that the other person is actually responsible for the way you are
feeling. Although the present desire might indeed be caused by a shared past
incarnation, which has served to intertwine the destinies of your souls, it is
still your own unresolved feelings, which are causing your instinctual
reactions. Reaction is only where there is a personal attachment of some sort. And,
of course, no one but yourself can provoke any changes in the way your feelings
are behaving, i.e., what you attach yourself to. The only way to rid yourself
of a hindering/an unwanted desire, is to resist the temptation to fulfil it and
instead to enlighten it with your conscious awareness until it loses its power
over you. Whereas giving in to emotional or physical lusts and to indulge in them
only serves to ad to the power they are exerting over you. Even though, by
giving in to certain desires they appear to be satisfied and gone afterwards. But this
is misleading for whatever you are paying attention to gains more force because
your personal attachment is being strengthened by it.
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