Love Hate Quotes

Love, the elusive force that underlies everything in our known world, what could it possibly be? In this field of opposites we call life we find Love as the only thing that stands alone. It does not have with it an opposite as the idea that we have come to know as hate has an emotional component that can be attached to pretty much everything that keeps us from fulfilling our desires.

To desire something is to want something you don't have, or to become something you are not, if everything is always as it should be, in perfect balance, then everything we do comes from a place that feels it is not content as we are always seeking to be more complete that we are by means of happiness. Happiness then becomes the most desired place which tends to feel like it does when everything is working out in our favor, according to the vision we have of our perfect life.

The ideas of distaste, disappointment, sadness, fear, anger, dislike etc... can all be seen as variations in hate intensity which is more the opposite of desire than love. Distaste as it contradicts your opinion, disappointment as it falls short of your expectation, anger because it doesn't adhere to your intention, or fear because it is unknown. All of these are simple contradictions to a desired outcome but have little to do with Love.

Hate then becomes a very powerful concept as it is viewed as the opposite of Love which suggests there is an opposite to existence in all its forms, or even worse it suggests that Love has something to do with the fulfilling of desire.

Sometimes the fulfilling of desire feels like Love as the release of the fulfilled desire feels similar to the release felt in Love, but once the desire is fulfilled it only changes appearance as you say "well done, what next?" and the answer is rarely "just be". Love on the other hand has a feeling that in every moment you are already exactly where you need to be, no matter where that is and no matter what you are doing.

If Love is not this feeling spawned from the fulfilling of desires then what is it? How do we find relationship to it? I was at the Calgary Center for Spiritual Living and the theme was "Love it or Leave it" the first in a series of Love themed topics for the next few weeks where the Reverend discussed the idea that as human beings we should Love people, (especially those we are in intimate relationships with), without expecting anything in return as this will either give birth to whatever unity the two of you are destined to share with the world or show you that it may be time to let go, as this may be the way to find growth. Either way it is a way to recognize the path of least resistance.

Alan Watts once said if everything is in free fall then what good would it do us to hold on to anything? Just let go and enjoy the ride.

"The Great Way is effortless for those who live in choiceless awareness, to choose without preference is to be clear" this is my favorite quote from The Book of Nothing (Tsin Tsin Ming). The path of least resistance is not always the easiest way, in fact it seldom is. You find yourself in constant compromise as you constantly bear the pain of the imbalance of the world around you, but it isn't yours! So we learn to let it move through us as it finds its way home, we let others bear the burden of preference as we cleanse them of the pain caused thereby.

You become the door that everything flows through as you open your heart to say "enter as you are though the inhalation of the breath, and I immediately release you, as you are, with an exhalation" You must release everything the way you find it, free of expectation, opinion or intention, so not to scramble it in such a way that makes it more difficult for it to find its counterpart and become unified again.

Of the many contradictions that exist in the world, the contrast between love and hate is perhaps the starkest. It is one that helps us value true love while understanding the ramifications of hatred.