Love isn’t a feeling.
(this isn’t necessarily a comment on an xgf but i suppose it could be. nowadays what isn’t commentary of some anything else?)
Often felt as a feeling… but it’s not. Feelings are limited, and manifested within individuals. Love is boundless and selfless. This might be impossible to understand if you’re immersed in the ‘me’ culture, our society of greed — but romantic love is only a small part of what Love is. In the gnostic sense, love is connection to God. In a more mundane way, it’s a connection to God through the individuals who surround us. So if Love isn’t just feeling a feeling — then what is it?
In the philosophical sense of a metaphysics of presence, it’s really less important what it is than how it is… and how it is, is service. Love is being there for someone else even if you don’t feel like it. Love is support, is connection. Good parents. Good neighbors. Good friends, family. Good strangers.
Love isn’t the honey bees and tinkly toes of ‘being in love’ although it may be sometimes expressed within those feelings since Love is everywhere, anywhere.
As for the honey bees and shaky knees…? Now that…. That, could be anything.
