Love is faith... And to take that leap of faith, to go into that ‘free-fall’, is not easy, and barriers within the mind needs to be broken to reach that state. (Free fall is what sky divers experience, when they jump from 1000’s of meters above).
It’s similar to faith in god, where that faith allows you to prostrate in obeisance, or kneel with absolute trust, setting aside your ego, giving up yourself… it’s like spiritual and it teaches you to be humble and to face one of our (human) great fear – giving away ourselves, submerging totally into one – one as supreme being in religious context.
Of course making oneself so vulnerable and open like this can lead to pain as well – and in love too the fear of rejection, breakup and the pain that follows is seen as existential crisis. Such a state of feeling insignificant, powerless, angry at letting self be vulnerable, stupid or altogether humiliated is not easy to accept.
But then humbleness is not easy to digest and that’s what we fear of, “what will happen if I am not accepted”? but without such a level of trust, without ‘self’ at stake, we cannot possibly can have acceptance either… whether its love or faith.
But the humbleness make us realize a lot of things, be more aware and open up multitudes of channels, connections, so that you could be more closer or widen comprehension with the world or universe around us… (or maybe its just within us).
This universe is not made of just things or materials, but of emotions, experiences as well and by going through difficult, rare experiences, we mature, become stronger as well.
When will one realize something like this is happening? Some of the symptoms could be:
Willingness to give without conditions, generous to accept another person, care without a care, and accept affection with pleasure and relate without pulling power-strings, but just being.
Did this all happen to me? I am not sure what’s dream and what’s not… and I don’t care to know.
1 comment:
hmm falling helplessly for someone can be threatening but also extremely soothing "activity"... yet one thing I'd disagree with you is comparison between love towards another human being and God or whatever form of expression of spiritual life one chooses/ is taught to believe in... the basic difference, in my modest opinion, is that in faith or religion u "fall" for the "higher forces" without any prejudices and selflessly, whereas when it comes to love for another human being, we are all followed by our selfish impulses and especially in present day world reject any attempt of fully subjecting ourselves to the other... In religion human being is seeking for utter and complete merging with God, whereas in erotic love losing oneself is destructive... A poem that ingenously discusses differences betn altruistic (faith like love) and selfish (love towards humans)love is W. Blake's "The Clod and the Pebble"
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