1. an intense feeling of deep affection. "babies fill parents with feelings of love"
   
2. a great interest and pleasure in something. "his love for football"
   
3. feel deep affection for (someone). "he loved his sister dearly"
   
4. like or enjoy very much. "I just love dancing"
   

• Definition: Love is wholeness in harmony.
  

Quote:"15.21 Questioner: Well, in yesterday’s material you stated “we offer the Law of One, the solving of paradoxes.” You also mentioned earlier that the first paradox, or the first distortion I meant, was the distortion of free will. Could you tell me if there’s a sequence? Is there a first, second, third, fourth distortion of the Law of One?

Ra: I am Ra. Only up to a very short point. After this point, the many-ness of distortions are equal one to another. The first distortion, free will, finds focus. This is the second distortion known to you as Logos, the Creative Principle or Love. This intelligent energy thus creates a distortion known as Light. From these three distortions come many, many hierarchies of distortions, each having its own paradoxes to be synthesized, no one being more important than another."

(09-18-2021, 07:31 PM)Nikki Wrote: To serve others is to serve yourself.  To serve yourself is to serve others.  We are all one, you cannot do for one and not do for another or yourself.  In the book mentioned above, this is part of the teachings.  There seems to be separation and that one way is good and another is wrong.  The Confederation serves humanity which in turn serves them as well.  The Creator loves all humans equally, no matter what we do or do not do.  Realize it is hard to comprehend but it is freedom when we realize all are equal in the heart of the Creator.  This does not mean that hurting others is acceptable but they are still loved and are love.

More thoughts to add to your great thread Anders.

(09-18-2021, 06:50 PM)Dtris Wrote: What is love?
Baby Don't Hurt me.
Don't hurt me,
No more.

Seriously though. The best way I can describe love is simply creation. When you love something you create, whether that be music, or drawing, or painting, or any other pursuit. Creating is love.

(09-19-2021, 05:40 PM)meadow-foreigner Wrote: I differ from mainstream dictionary definitions in this regard. To me, Love, considering the Law of One concept/context of Logos, more closely resembles an ever-flowing fractal structure, geometrically toroidal. From it begets duality (or the distortion of different gradations of Light) and henceforth all of the known dual creation.

I may expand further on this definition if I'm asked to.

Quote:The vibration or density of love or understanding is not a term used in the same sense as the second distortion, Love; the distortion Love being the great activator and primal co-Creator of various creations using intelligent infinity; the vibration love being that density in which those who have learned to do an activity called “loving” without significant distortion, then seek the ways of light or wisdom. Thus in vibratory sense love comes into light in the sense of the activity of unity in its free will. Love uses light and has the power to direct light in its distortions. Thus vibratory complexes recapitulate in reverse the creation in its unity, thus showing the rhythm or flow of the great heartbeat, if you will use this analogy.

Quote:The root cause of blockage is the lack of the ability to see the other-self as the Creator, or to phrase this differently, the lack of love.

(09-19-2021, 06:12 AM)Serveou Wrote: I saw this thread and I immediately wanted to contemplate the meaning of love in my morning meditation. I do not think that I am a wanderer so I do not have an intuitive deeper meaning to give for love but here are some things that came to me during my contemplation.

Love is softness.
Love is kindness.
Love is acceptance.
Love is openheartedness.
Love is sharing.
Love is giving without expectation of return.
Love is caring.
Love is respecting other peoples freewill.
Love is forgiveness.

These came to me during my short contemplation. Might be pretty obvious to someone but I think it was good for me at least to contemplate love because sometimes love is taken for granted and it is good to remind the self what it takes to create love. This was also beneficial for me I think because I am a cashier at a local supermarket and I meet hundreds of people everyday with different backgrounds and worldviews. I try to include these in my everyday encounters with my other selfs.

Quote:If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

(09-20-2021, 12:32 PM)Brandon Gwinn Wrote:

(09-19-2021, 06:12 AM)Serveou Wrote: I saw this thread and I immediately wanted to contemplate the meaning of love in my morning meditation. I do not think that I am a wanderer so I do not have an intuitive deeper meaning to give for love but here are some things that came to me during my contemplation.

Love is softness.
Love is kindness.
Love is acceptance.
Love is openheartedness.
Love is sharing.
Love is giving without expectation of return.
Love is caring.
Love is respecting other peoples freewill.
Love is forgiveness.

These came to me during my short contemplation. Might be pretty obvious to someone but I think it was good for me at least to contemplate love because sometimes love is taken for granted and it is good to remind the self what it takes to create love. This was also beneficial for me I think because I am a cashier at a local supermarket and I meet hundreds of people everyday with different backgrounds and worldviews. I try to include these in my everyday encounters with my other selfs.

You know, having that type of self-honesty and humility to say I don't think I'm a wanderer may be indicative of actually being a wanderer- if not ET, then maybe an awakened Earth wanderer.

(09-21-2021, 07:22 AM)Serveou Wrote: Brandon Gwinn

Thanks for saying that! I just have this impression that wanderers most often experience these so called 'close encounters' and have some intuitive advantage in all things spiritual that I don't have. I did see a humanoid being standing at the end of my bed in one of my dreams (if that even was a dream) right after I had started seeking and I have seen some weird things in the sky that I thought were UFO's but I cannot confirm nor deny it. I have just always been interested in space and extraterrestial life and supernatural phenomena for as long as I can remember. But when it comes to these fancy spiritual phenomena that people experience I just feel that I can't relate. Whatever the case may be, in my mind love comes first or at least that's what I'm trying to practise. And I apologise for everyone reading this for going off topic.

(09-18-2021, 06:37 PM)Nikki Wrote: Love is in all words and thoughts.  These words/thoughts are the song of a wonderer, dancing and singing to the Creator.  The Creator loves to sing, dance and have fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l6JL4SmBwo

Hard to get
Impossible to hold
Straight and narrow
Like a burning fuse
In a long cold dawn
By the side of the road
A hopeless case
A perfect thing

Love is ( love is )
What you want it to be
Love is ( love is )
Heaven to the lonely
Show me
What you want me to do
Cause love is
What I got for you

I close my eyes
Search the stars
Call for help
Wake up cold
You're in my system
Under my skin
Raw emotion
Please don't go

Love is ( love is )
What you want it to be
Love is ( love is )
Heaven to the lonely
Show me
What you want me to do
Cause love is
What I got for you

Can't live on promises
Won't sleep at night
Don't understand the things you say
Till I read them in your eyes
Got to run on instinct
Got to go by feel
Got to trust my senses
Know it is for real

Can't live on promises
Won't sleep at night
Don't understand the things you say
Till I read them in your eyes
Got to run on instinct
Got to go by feel
Got to trust my senses

Love is ( love is )
What you want it to be
Love is ( love is )
Heaven to the lonely
Show me
What you want me to do
Cause love is
What I got for you

Love is ( love is )
Love is ( love is )
Show me

(09-19-2021, 06:21 PM)Nikki Wrote:

(09-19-2021, 05:40 PM)meadow-foreigner Wrote: I differ from mainstream dictionary definitions in this regard. To me, Love, considering the Law of One concept/context of Logos, more closely resembles an ever-flowing fractal structure, geometrically toroidal. From it begets duality (or the distortion of different gradations of Light) and henceforth all of the known dual creation.

I may expand further on this definition if I'm asked to.

Meadow-foreigner, interested in your expansion of the definition of love.

Quote:13.5 Questioner: Thank you. Can you tell me of the first known thing in the creation?

Ra: I am Ra. The first known thing in the creation is infinity. The infinity is creation.

13.6 Questioner: From this infinity then must come what we experience as creation. What was the next step or the next evolvement?

Ra: I am Ra. Infinity became aware. This was the next step.

13.7 Questioner: After this, what came next?

Ra: I am Ra. Awareness led to the focus of infinity into infinite energy. You have called this by various vibrational sound complexes, the most common to your ears being “Logos” or “Love.” The Creator is the focusing of infinity as an aware or conscious principle called by us as closely as we can create understanding/learning in your language, intelligent infinity.

Quote:Q: If infinity is geometrically analog to a dot/sphere, encompassing all that there is, how could this have direction?
A: By establishing an organized flow within itself.

User Wrote:Wow, that is really something, isn't it? But why all these mental gymnastics to define something that we should feel with the heart, instead of trying to rationalize about it?

https://llresearch.org/transcripts/issues/2020/2020_0118.aspx Wrote:My question is, it seems to me the central point of that is an attempt to seek love, and the intention to seek love, and not necessarily the successful finding of love in every moment. So, I’m wondering if, is the power that Ra talks about that builds in this attempt, is it necessary to find love for that power to build? Or is it just the attempt that empowers us? I was hoping that you could just elaborate on the difference between the attempt of finding love and the success of finding love.

Q’uo: I am Q’uo and am aware of your query, my brother. This query has a bearing upon each individual’s spiritual path, for within this third-density illusion it is the task of the seeker of truth to find that love in its essence, and in its experience in its daily round of activities.
The attempt to find love, rather than to be confused with anger or jealousy or disharmony, or any other emotion than love, is an attempt of purification of the perception of the seeker of truth. This is the foundation stone, this is the direction which has the most meaning for any seeker of truth. The attempt, then, is that which lays the framework for the seeker of truth to move and have its liveliness, shall we say, its vitality that is enhanced by the attempt. Each attempt, each intention, will produce some result, whether it is complete in its entirety of perceiving the love in the moment, is of little importance.
It is not necessary to be able to perceive the entirety of the love of the moment, for the love of the moment is infinite. It is not usually possible for any third-density seeker of truth to be able to perceive the entirety of the infinite love that exists in each moment. However, it is possible to intend to seek that love and to find what is available to one’s own abilities and perceptions.
Therefore, as you power the seeking of love by the attempt, the attempt, then, gains in the momentum, the intention, the quality of purity of the entity so seeking the love in the moment. This type of momentum, then, gains in its ability to receive or perceive more of that love as you move from moment to moment, gathering further momentum. This is the means by which each seeker of truth may empower its own seeking process.
This is necessary in order to realize that the intention is that which is of prime importance for such a journey of seeking. The intention, then, is the motivator of the momentum that builds as the intention continues to be exercised in each moment of experience.
This type of seeking is that which continues to purify the mental configuration of the seeker so that its daily seeking of love becomes a kind of meditation—a one-pointed meditation upon that love that is sought in each succeeding moment. This meditative state, then, is that which continues to offer to the seeker an increasing ability to apprehend more and more of that love that is in the moment, realizing that this is an infinite journey of seeking that one is upon.
Thus, the intention is all. The results of the intention will continue to grow and grow until the cells of the seeker’s body, mind, and spirit, are imbued with such resounding love that this type of love, then, beams as a beacon to all those about such a seeker of truth.

(09-21-2021, 06:43 PM)meadow-foreigner Wrote: [quote="Nikki" pid="305684" dateline="1632090070"]
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Perfectly valid question. The reason is: once you know how the game operates, you have more and better assets to perform and Create in this Universe.

It is important to know stuff with the heart as much as it is important to know with the mind. They are not mutually exclusive. Be resourceful. Be creative.

And, as always, the choice is yours.

T

(09-23-2021, 03:42 PM)Nikki Wrote:

(09-21-2021, 06:43 PM)meadow-foreigner Wrote:

(09-19-2021, 06:21 PM)Nikki Wrote:

(09-19-2021, 05:40 PM)meadow-foreigner Wrote: Perfectly valid question. The reason is: once you know how the game operates, you have more and better assets to perform and Create in this Universe.

It is important to know stuff with the heart as much as it is important to know with the mind. They are not mutually exclusive. Be resourceful. Be creative.

And, as always, the choice is yours.

T

Thank you @meadow-foriegner.  The system would not let me leave "thank you" so wanted you to know that your reply is appreciated.  

(09-18-2021, 06:51 AM)Anders Wrote: I like to start with defining love. Oxford Languages gives these definitions:

1. an intense feeling of deep affection. "babies fill parents with feelings of love"
   
2. a great interest and pleasure in something. "his love for football"
   
3. feel deep affection for (someone). "he loved his sister dearly"
   
4. like or enjoy very much. "I just love dancing"
   

My own definition is:

• Definition: Love is wholeness in harmony.
  

Of course then the terms 'wholeness' and 'harmony' need to be defined. At some point the definitions have to finalized or it becomes an endless regression, or even circular as in "what is the definition of definition?". I may try to unpack my simple definition in later posts.

Ra uses the term distortion in relation to love:

Quote:"15.21 Questioner: Well, in yesterday’s material you stated “we offer the Law of One, the solving of paradoxes.” You also mentioned earlier that the first paradox, or the first distortion I meant, was the distortion of free will. Could you tell me if there’s a sequence? Is there a first, second, third, fourth distortion of the Law of One?

Ra: I am Ra. Only up to a very short point. After this point, the many-ness of distortions are equal one to another. The first distortion, free will, finds focus. This is the second distortion known to you as Logos, the Creative Principle or Love. This intelligent energy thus creates a distortion known as Light. From these three distortions come many, many hierarchies of distortions, each having its own paradoxes to be synthesized, no one being more important than another."

My interpretation is that reality is a wholeness in progress. There is always evolution into higher densities, into more inclusive and complex manifestations and in that sense manifested reality becomes more whole and unified over time, and in that way less distorted. The Logos is already complete I think only in umanifested form and the manifested form will always be a lesser albeit improving distortion of the complete Logos. That evolutionary pull into more harmonized wholeness is love as I see it.

1. Pondering social causes, quality, lack of discrimination, I realized that the most important point is to simply support everyone to experience life as they see fit, an ultimate cause a la Buddhism or Service-to-Others and the universe
   
2. Experimenting with specific inspired well-wishing for certain kinds of bliss that are fun to imaginatively offer, realizing that, hey, if they don't want this, maybe I'd love to wish for the fulfillment of their other desires, needs, fantasies, and dreams for the highest good and with divine balance (and if they don't accept any of these warm-wishes, may the energy go where it's welcome and appreciated).  Refining a rather particular metta-wish and noticing the subtle differences in feeling was interesting.
   

Quote:27.12 Questioner: I would like for you to define love in the sense— in its sense as the second distortion.

Ra: I am Ra. This must be defined against the background of intelligent infinity or unity or the One Creator with the primal distortion of free will. The term Love then may be seen as the focus, the choice of attack, the type of energy of an extremely, shall we say, high order which causes intelligent energy to be formed from the potential of intelligent infinity in just such and such a way. This then may be seen to be an object rather than an activity by some of your peoples, and the principle of this extremely strong energy focus being worshiped as the Creator instead of unity or oneness from which all Loves emanate.

(09-21-2021, 06:43 PM)meadow-foreigner Wrote: Let us start from the beginning, from Ra's perspective:

Quote:13.5 Questioner: Thank you. Can you tell me of the first known thing in the creation?

Ra: I am Ra. The first known thing in the creation is infinity. The infinity is creation.

13.6 Questioner: From this infinity then must come what we experience as creation. What was the next step or the next evolvement?

Ra: I am Ra. Infinity became aware. This was the next step.

13.7 Questioner: After this, what came next?

Ra: I am Ra. Awareness led to the focus of infinity into infinite energy. You have called this by various vibrational sound complexes, the most common to your ears being “Logos” or “Love.” The Creator is the focusing of infinity as an aware or conscious principle called by us as closely as we can create understanding/learning in your language, intelligent infinity.

Quote:13.8 Questioner: Can you state the next step?

Ra: The next step is still at this space/time nexus in your illusion achieving its progression as you may see it in your illusion. The next step is an infinite reaction to the creative principle following the Law of One in one of its primal distortions, freedom of will. Thus many, many dimensions, infinite in number, are possible. The energy moves from the intelligent infinity due first to the outpouring of randomized creative force, this then creating patterns which in holographic style appear as the entire creation no matter which direction or energy is explored. These patterns of energy begin then to regularize their own local, shall we say, rhythms and fields of energy, thus creating dimensions and universes.