If personal love is all that there is, then what is missing is the transcendental dimension of the formless – which is where true love arises. You can have an affinity with another form, which can be called ‘personal love’. And again, you are hoping for some completion there. If you are a very peaceful person, maybe you feel drawn toward a dramatic person, or vice-versa. Or, if they don’t resonate, it may be the opposite that you feel drawn to. You have the attraction for the other, then there may be finding certain qualities in another human being that resonate with certain qualities in yourself. One half of humanity is male, one half is female, roughly. It’s to do with form, because on the level of form you are not whole – you are one half of the whole. That lies at the basis of the attraction. The pull towards the other is an attempt to find wholeness, completeness, fulfillment through the opposite polarity, in an attempt to find the Oneness. The oneness has become the duality of male/female. The primary incompleteness of this form is that you are either a man or a woman. Naturally, there is an affinity of the male/female, the incompleteness of this form. Especially if the sexual act is denied long enough, it’s more likely to develop into obsessive love…so much so, that in cultures where you could not have sex until you were married, falling in love could be a huge thing and could lead to suicide. You can be drawn to another body in a sexual way, and it’s sometimes called “love”. Another aspect of affinity with another form is male/female. You have a love toward your mother that might be called ‘personal’. One being that this form has come out of another form – called your mother – and so there is an affinity of this form with that other form. It sometimes happens that the form has an affinity with other forms. The human is the form, the being is the formless, the timeless consciousness itself. The two dimensions that the human being embodies are the ‘human’ and the ‘being’. We are in the relative as form, and in the absolute as formless consciousness. We need to remember to understand true love and other forms of so-called love. Maybe one or two at this moment are “in love”, and those who have experienced it have also experienced “falling out of love”. For example, “falling in love”…perhaps most of us have experienced it. There may be substitutes, things that are called “love” but are not true love. As long as the conditioned mind operates and you are completely identified with it, there’s no true love. The recognition of the other as yourself in essence – not the form – is true love. If you cannot recognize the formless in yourself, you cannot recognize yourself in the other. Without recognition of the formless within yourself, there can be no true transcendental love. Q: If we’re all one, why do we feel drawn toward certain individuals in an expression of “personal love”?ĮT: True love is transcendental.
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