There is a problem that we as a culture have, we can’t seem to tell the difference between Lust and Love. We tend to think that lust is love, while it is rather easy to tell the difference when you think about it. Love is probably the greatest thing that human can experience, lust is just another emotion and often it is a negative one.
Lust is that first feeling you get when you see someone you are attracted too. Lust can give you the shakes, make your heart beat faster, make you not think or not even be able to think. Lust is like a drug, it can make you need to be around that person, as you become addicted to them. Lust can make people do insane things, act in ways they never would otherwise. Lust creates stalkers, lust can kill someone and make them kill. Lust is what causes someone to be violent to someone they are obsessed with. It is lust that is blind, when we are filled with it, we don’t see another faults, or problems. We don’t care about it.
Lust is the physical body, it is about hormones, pheromones, and the effects of the body. The body can override good sense, it can make us not think clearly. I, personally, had that experience. Back when I was working in a casino, I was dealing Blackjack. I was dealing to a full table one day and I glanced up, standing a little away from the table was the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. She had perfectly tanned skin, long straight brown hair. She was wearing a little black dress, and had the best smile I have seen. I kept dealing but every time I glanced up at her, she would smile at me, and at that moment I would literally lose the ability to read a card or add. After this happened a couple times, the table figured out what was going on and started laughing at me. I can’t blame them it was funny. I even told them I had no idea what card total they had. After a while, her boyfriend came by and they left. But that was a moment I will never forget and happened almost 20 years ago. That was lust. It made my brain shut down completely. I have never had that happen before or since.
Lust is a very powerful emotion, but even though it is romantic, and it is more pervasive than love it is much less and a pale imitation of what real Love is. Love is never negative, love never destroys. Love never makes people jealous, it is open and understanding. Love never hurts someone. Love is not selfish, and it never wants less for another. Love is not blind, with love we see all the person, and we accept everything about them. Love makes us better in all ways. Love forgives, love accepts. When you love you never want another to hurt, for any reason. Love makes us see others as part of ourselves, it never divides. Love takes time to develop, it is the real feeling that comes into us and pushes all negative things away.
There is nothing as powerful as love. This is especially true when dealing with the “paranormal” world. Love is more powerful then hate, it is more powerful than fear. When we allow love to find us then we drive all hate and fear out of us. When we deal with spirits with love then we get love returned. If you send out love you get back love, not fear or anger. When we surround ourselves with love, and the power of love then nothing bad can touch us. This is the essence of the protective circles and prayers for protection. If you have love in your heart then they will be much more powerful and effective. If you have fear and hatred in your heart then that is what you will invite in and all the protective prayers you send out won’t do a thing. Here lust really ins’t going to help much, though I supposed it might come up (no pun I swear) if a succubus or incubus shows up.
When you hear about love being talked about in a romantic way, almost always it is lust that we are talking about. It just doesn’t sound as good to say lust than love. Think about all the times you have heard someone talking about how they love someone and its really just lust. Lust usually burns out within 18 months in even the best cases. Love is forever. However few find love. We get used to someone, it is easier to keep them around, etc. It is lust that makes humans not be an monogamous species. That is evolution at work. Love is something that really doesn’t deal with that, but because love is not about the body it can make us monogamous and can make us be dedicated to another for our life. Lust will pull us to find another to mate with, to play with, that is a natural and chemical reaction.
So, put on a heart shaped TEM and look at the world. Really pay attention to what is lust and what is love. Don’t just buy into the Valentines day bs of what love is, look at real love. Don’t just say oh those two are in love because they are passionate, again that’s lust. Now don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with lust, it is what drives the species. But just don’t confuse the two. Lust is probably not a good reason to get married, love is. Lust is a great reason to have sex, heck thats what it is designed for. But again don’t think just because you have lust with someone that they will sacrifice for you, or will always be behind you. Don’t expect someone in lust to always be faithful. Sure they will be faithful while they are in the throws of passion (maybe) but not when the fires die down.
We don’t need to lie to ourselves we can admit that lust is lust and love is love. Stop feeding on all the bs that we are fed. Think for yourself, and realize its okay to be honest with ourselves and others. When we ignore things like lust and lie to ourselves that it is love then it has more power over us. The importance is to allow ourselves to be open to see love, real love. We know it when we see it, often because it makes those who can’t feel love angry. Fear and hatred will try to deride love and make it less any chance they get. When fear rules the people then love is hard to find.
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