Love is Expansion -- Fear in Contraction

[taomation]

I just heard this quote from someone named Sai Maa. I have never heard her speak before and am not promoting her, but this statement blew me away in its truth and simplicity. And as an act of love, I wanted to share it with you. Peace and Love...Tao

[Triaxis]

I have studied and practiced metaphysics for some time now (certainly no guru though it must be said) and i admit that early in my journey contemplating the concept of "love" i had many problems

I tried to express it, i really did. But it all seemed so .............. disingenuous. After a time, i concluded that "love" ( in the conventional sense of emotion as most humans know it) can not be manufactured. Or forced.

So i scrapped the whole concept and instead focused on energy flows - positive/negitive. Metaphysics ties closely with physics, and just as a battery does not have a "love" charge or a "fear" charge, i concluded that i didn't as well. Indeed, i to was made up of positive and negative charge.

So instead of trying to express "love", i instead began to express positivity, which finally allowed me to advance beyond the conundrum of love or fear.

And it is easier and much more natural too. If you try to force yourself to love someone, it can actually seem kind of creepy to the person you are trying to love and in many cases you will not find that love being returned. Positivity however - all beings react positivly to that form of energy and you find that generally speaking, what you give, you recieve in turn.

It's the law of resonance or attraction i believe some term it.

That my conclusion anyway at this point (though my mind is still open to other concepts). I Hope it offers an alternative approach for anyone stumbling on the "love/fear" concept.

believing you are free is expansion, believing you are non-free, is contraction, from my perspective love and fear are just two emotions wich arent the major players on consciousness expansion.

the love/fear dualization is always a reductionist fallacy proposed to limit your expansion and disempower your personal freedom.

Tryaxis is completely right, if you want to live a full life, don´t force yourself to love others, don´t force yourself to refuse to feel your fears, just accept that you have them, that you are human.

[Seashore]

Originally Posted by Triaxis

...So instead of trying to express "love", i instead began to express positivity, which finally allowed me to advance beyond the conundrum of love or fear...

This makes sense to me...