Heart to Heart
3-20-1999
A look at the nature of relationships
By Dale Cox
I love you, I hate you. Words we hear often and often in that
order.
As if the total validation of our love is in the violence of our hate.
What's that all about? Why do we live with such a high ideal of
"forever
love", only to have it fall into forever hate. You could call it manic,
but we'd call it just the way things are, and with most human
expression,
we'd drop the subject right there. We have this overwhelming tendency
to
try to ignore the things we don't understand, rather than try to figure
them out. Call it supposed arrogance, taking for granted that just
because
we feel ours may be the only valid perception, that our perception can
get by unquestioned. But then later we're depressed and suicidal,
and completely baffled as to why. Because, still, we are often only
looking
at what we perceived, not how we expressed. Most of the time our
perceptions
are based on the sum of our past experiences. Our experiences get worse
and we blame it on the world around us. Often thinking, but never
wanting
to believe it may be us. Eventually we get to that with the help of
others,
who feel the need to tell us what assholes we are and why. This is a
good
thing. Feedback is always a viable resource in the defining of our
personal
realities. Of course, it should be recognized that the truth hurts. So,
if what someone is telling you hurts, they could be right. Growth is a
healthy thing.
The big question we should eventually arrive at, through
repeated exposure
to this specific type of pain, is not " why can't anyone love me," its
"what's wrong with the way I'm trying to love?" from my experience,
most
of us don't even recognize where we get our definition of love. We have
this dream vision of coming together with a person. Having there be an
audible click, at which point the real world melts away and we enter a
dreamlike world, where we become innocent again. Gone, are all the
horrors
of our past. This new person accepts us unconditionally, everything we
are is exactly what the other person wants, we no longer feel self
conscious,
we know longer fear rejection. We feel complete and whole in the notion
we are accepted as what we are, faults, hang-ups, the whole kit and
caboodle.
Like an exact fit in the galactic puzzle, suddenly we belong. We are
here.
The rest of the world becomes an easier place to be, we are no longer
alone.
We feel that together, with this other person, we can do anything. For
this feeling we'd be willing to die for this other person. So, then,
why
would we be equally willing to kill this other person, when their
feelings
change in relation to us?
Because we are ignorant of the spiritual reality that we are
in. We
are ignorant of the spiritual environment we are in. And because we
choose
to remain ignorant of our own responsibility in changing our own
personal
perspective, to evolve. We dream of a love ever lasting and true, one
that
will never waiver. It perplexes us as to why we cannot achieve and
maintain
this. And that's not to say some people don't, some do, but most of us
don't. Even those of us who are in comfortable committed relationships
have to admit that there are different levels of love. The honeymoon
eventually
ends and we drift into accepting compliance. In America we often view
relationships,
or
partners, as commodities. Our mainstream media wields great influence
on
our choice of mate. Beauty and success, the basic animal functions of,
a man to provide, and a woman to produce attractive babies. This, I
think,
is linked with our over obsession with materialism. Physical
attractiveness
is worth competing for. This is petty, we need to grow up.
Let's look at the facts. We are spiritual beings. A fact
little recognized
by modern day materialism. What can spirit do or us? We can build
bridges,
skyscrapers, send man to the moon and beyond. Funny, we can't seem to
create
peace and fellowship amongst all of the people on planet earth. We have
the ability to destroy life as we know it, completely, for at least
400,000
years, and yet we can't find peace and brotherhood. This is the disease
of materialism. Being in physical control of our environment and the
other
people in it. Thus we see partnerships as possession. A loved one is a
possession, much like a TV. Someone takes our possession away, we get
mad.
We don't view our relationships as spiritual unity, because we are not
spiritual beings. Thanks to the nineth Eucunimcal congress of 869, when
the Catholic church banned the teaching of spirit. The Church has also
condemned woman to serve man, and man was made servant to
country.
Thus, we see the definition of love in our spiritual minds,
but by not recognizing spirit, we seek it from our physical
perspective,
as a possession. The two obviously don't mix.
So, then, where does our spiritual perspective of what love is
come
from if we're not taught the nature of spirit? From Jesus Christ. He
came
to tell us that we are all accepted, we are all loved, and that the
only
sin is to worship materialism instead of spirit. But, today money has
become
our false god, we covet our neighbors wife, if she's more beautiful
than
ours, we covet his car if it is newer than ours. when Christ died for
our
sins of self rejection, he imbedded in the human consciousness the
concept
of universal love, the acceptance of god for everyone, no matter who
they
were or what they had done. We can't escape that truth, it is our karma
for killing him. When we imagine our dream love, we are drawing from
the
memory of the concept of the unity of man, that Christ etched in our
soul
when he died for us. Wherever there are two of us gathered together
with
open hearts, there is created a state known as unity. When we cease to
judge each other, and learn to accept each other for who we are, this
unity
is created. It is dynamic, it can spread if we let it. But we don't.
Materialism
has but walls and fences and ideas between this unity. Creating
conflict
in the rejection of our natural evolution. We were then taught to turn
that conflict out into the world. By who you may ask.
Christ came to show us the way out of an environment where we
are attacked
by evil. Both from without and from within. There are spiritual
entities
that seek to destroy mankind. Externally via materialism, internally
through
fear, doubt, low self esteem, and vanity. We fear rejection because it
sends us spiraling down into our own personal hell of fear and
doubt.
Materialism is the means of our rejection. It separates us from the
unity.
By teaching us to value ourselves in a material way. Productivity,
financial
success, attractiveness. Thus, whenever we can achieve the unity, we
cling
to it like savage animals. Thus, when it is taken away we respond like
savage animals, seeking to destroy that which rejected us. The thing
we,
only moments earlier, were in love with.
So, what is it going take for us to change? Certainly not a
miracle
of god. That's already been done. No, we are going to have to make an
effort
to change. We are going to have to come to the realization that every
one
of us is a special being. We all belong here. We are going to have to
realize
that as spiritual beings, we cannot own another being. each one of us
was
given a free will and a soul. we are not commodities. We are going to
have
to recognize that the concept of unity is not limited to our love
relationships,
it is available in all of our relationships. Even the non sexual ones.
It is the unity of humanity that we aspire to, and in that environment
the way we define our relationships will change. We will realize that
each
one of us has a rich experience to share, and when we can learn to open
our hearts to more than one person, we will no longer have to fear
rejection.
Because we will learn that love comes from within. So imagine, if you
will,
that vision of the perfect person, an how they make you feel. Then
imagine
a whole society living that way, and the person you always imagined is
you. This is the power of humanity. Alone we are still stronger than
the
evil that would pull us down, that is the power of our choice. United,
that evil will shrink away from us like darkness fleeing the light.
Divided
we can only conquer ourselves. The choice is ours.
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