"how do you show your love to your world?"

I am exploring the power of Love. I do like the belief that the unifying force is powered by Love. The connections that bond us can be called Love and make up the vibration that we relate to as "love".

So how do you connect with your world?
How do you radiate or amplify the love in your world to increase the connective power of the Force?

By showing compassion where I am able...

And showing "tough love" where I feel I must...

How do I show my Love to the World ?

By staying as present in It and with It as I can ...

I actually just wrote this for one of my essays, but I think it answers this question perfectly!

Being nice is a personal choice, and we must make the choice every day to not only be nice to others, but to accept that others may not be nice in return. How we deal with that is our choice, and the result of our choice is what makes us happy or sad, not what the other person has done.

You show love to the world by being love, by reacting to people with love, and by acting in all things with love. Some people are just naturally nasty people, but that doesn't mean you have to be a mirror. How you react to their nastiness should still show the love within you, not be a reflection of the person who is nasty.

I am fine with your belief that the Force is powered by love...But how did you come to that conclusion?

What is love to you? Given that it breaks down to a chemical cocktail inside your body.

How does it become an energy that is able to be transferred and how is that transfer done?

How does this tie into anything to do with vibration? Why are these connection defaulted as love?

Conclusions, all of them. Based on what?

I am connected to my world in the fact that I cannot survive without its air, animals, or plants, and a myriad of other, less ambiguous things. At the atomic level(and at the technological), we are all connected. I share a good portion of my DNA with everything on it from chimps to trees.

I show my love for it by being in awe of it and all that happens on it on a daily basis.

However I dont believe this love reinforces, or leads to any kind of connection to the world. At least in regards to the Force, which is in itself vague and ambiguous.

It has a great deal of connective power with individuals on it though.

How do I radiate my love for them?

Actions.

I know of no other way.

baru wrote: So how do you connect with your world?
How do you radiate or amplify the love in your world to increase the connective power of the Force?

It's something I think I'm particularly bad at - not for not feeling love, but rather not really showing it very well. Nevertheless I try to connect to some mental representation of my environment and understand and nurture any complexity which might exist within it, human's being a good example and something I should be most able to relate too.

In that regard I think love is fundamental to the concept of the Force's physical manifestation, and that the experience of the Force therefore is centered in it, as supported by things like religious ecstasy which could be a manifestation of complex psychological coherence leading to the neurological state's supporting the subjective experience, or something else entirely
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Khaos wrote: What is love to you? Given that it breaks down to a chemical cocktail inside your body.

No, love does not breakdown to chemical cocktails in the body....

Love does cause certain chemicals to be activated, and therefore physical reactions to occur...

But, reversing that process, elevating those chemicals does not create love... Only the physical reactions...

No, love does not breakdown to chemical cocktails in the body....

Love does cause certain chemicals to be activated, and therefore physical reactions to occur...

Really? Show me love outside of a human body. Or a mammalian body if you prefer.

Certainly, you might send me a picture of people hugging or kissing, but that isnt love, perhaps expressions of love, but not exclusively so. Not only that, but you have said physical reactions occur after chemicals are effected.

Chemicals are activated, and we call them love, and you can activate those chemicals in another.

Show me love in a form onto itself. Because apparently its a measurable energy that has a binding effect on the Force.

Certainly I can concede that other animals may share the same chemical reactions, but thats about it.

Again, a conclusion offered with no real backing of evidence.

I would state that love is the force. it is the bonds that connect all things, it is all things, it is life and "stuff".
It is the consciousness that guides us.

Khaos wrote:
Again, a conclusion offered with no real backing of evidence.

Lack of proof does not mean it doesnt exist...

It means merely it cannot be proven... ( I might add, "at this time", lol...)

Come on Khaos, lol...

All sorts of things we purported to exist before they could be 'proven'....

Jestor wrote:

Khaos wrote:
Again, a conclusion offered with no real backing of evidence.

Lack of proof does not mean it doesnt exist...

It means merely it cannot be proven... ( I might add, "at this time", lol...)

Come on Khaos, lol...

All sorts of things we purported to exist before they could be 'proven'....

But the effects can be seen, regardless of whether or not it can be proven to your satisfaction....

Something triggers those feelings, just like they trigger the feelings we have for hate, envy or any other emotion...

Prove what they are... Or are not... lol, besides an idea...

baru wrote: I am exploring the power of Love. I do like the belief that the unifying force is powered by Love. The connections that bond us can be called Love and make up the vibration that we relate to as "love".

So how do you connect with your world?
How do you radiate or amplify the love in your world to increase the connective power of the Force?

I feel it begins with learning.

- Always seek to learn, without thinking you already know.
- Through learning you address fears and insecurities and establish trust and genuine wonder.
- Through trust and wonder you become aware of beauty.
- Through the awareness of beauty, you may find beauty within yourself.
- Through finding beauty within yourself, you find what there is to love toward yourself.
- Through finding what there is to love toward yourself, you find the same thing to love toward everyone else.

The above process is not intellectual, and you cannot "think" your way through it. You cannot "make it happen". You can only "let' it happen when it is ready and when you are not in its way. It is not simply a belief or a philosophy. It is a naturally created, steadily drawn-out realization that grows within you as long as you let it.

What comes of it, is simply whatever it is you unquestionably love to do in the world and who you decide to become through your adventure.

I try to work on myself so that I can be of the best service possible. I also try to be kind enough, even while I support people in their growth, to allow them the space to be whoever they happen to be without me needing them to be different.

They are both difficult, but the continued effort when it is hardest is loving as well.

I do my best to clear my field so that my true love for people can radiate out. I do my best to let go of my judgement, resentment and biases that can block my divine care for all life.

I try to do it through kindness and generosity. I'm pretty confident that I have never once made an enemy through treating them badly. I like to think I am good with that. Also, I just try to encourage people to be friendly with one another. It might not make a huge difference at first, but the small changing of everyone's behavior can solely make a difference.

Bhakti Yoga.
the act of loving oneself and the force.
being love in ones life.

I define live as acceptance, appreciation and care.

I find the challenge is being awake to the reality of our present state of being and still being able to love into it. Can I accept and appreciate the present state of our world?

One good days, yes. On down days, I am challenged.

How to you remind yourself to love first when lost in the humanity of the situation?

baru wrote: I am exploring the power of Love. I do like the belief that the unifying force is powered by Love. The connections that bond us can be called Love and make up the vibration that we relate to as "love".

So how do you connect with your world?
How do you radiate or amplify the love in your world to increase the connective power of the Force?

I try to express my love of mankind by using two of the few wisdom sayings in the bible and arguing/discussing biblical morality with Christians. I do the same with Muslims but few of them seem to or are willing to do so.

Proverbs 3:12 For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

1 Thessalonians 5:21 Test all things; hold fast what is good.

If I am correct in my moral position on issues and can convince my interlocutor, then a bit more light is put into the Dark Force. So to speak.

Regards
DL

Jestor wrote: By showing compassion where I am able...

And showing "tough love" where I feel I must...

The perfect balance and the same ideology as Gnostic Christianity.

Regards
DL

Khaos wrote:

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Chemicals are activated, and we call them love, and you can activate those chemicals in another.
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Let me first say that love is an emotion, not a chemical, and we do not call the chemicals involved love.

Perhaps you can enlighten me on a question though.

What triggers your brain to produce the chemicals in question?

In Gnostic Christian terms, I can see an analogy between vision and love and what follows is how we express it and I would like to compare your answer to that.


Gnostic Jesus was questioned as to what sees the vision, -- and for here visions or real feelings of love.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/maps/primary/mary.html

The Saviour answered and said, 'He does not see through the soul nor through the spirit, but the mind which [is] between the two - that is [what] sees the vision...'

For where the mind is, there is the treasure.

Matthew 6:21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

Regards
DL

baru wrote: I do my best to clear my field so that my true love for people can radiate out. I do my best to let go of my judgement, resentment and biases that can block my divine care for all life.

Let go your judgement.

Are you saying that if you were chatting with some guy at a bar and learned he had just killed someone, and was going to kill again, that you would let go your judgement and just let him go without judging him evil and doing something about it?

Please say it is not so and that there is a time to hate in your ideology.

If you cannot hate well, then I don't think you can love well as both emotions are directly tied to works and deeds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4ga_M5Zdn4

Regards
DL