Love feels like...

What is love? Or phrased a better way, how does love make us feel? The only way to know love is at the emotional level. Love is not intellectual. Although everyone has tried to make it so one or more times in their
life. It's not physical, that's called lust and it's very short lived if that. Love has a growth potential. It starts at the feeling level because it is based in the spiritual realm. It touches the soul and the soul and the emotional body go together. There are different levels of consciousness and as you go deeper into consciousness, the greater becomes your connection with the soul. The soul is life force. We aren't our bodies, we aren't our thoughts, we have our feelings, but we are our spirits. The bodies change, the thoughts differ, the emotions swing, but the soul can remain constant for a lifetime.
The only way to know oneself is to spend time alone quietly going within. From the time we are very young we are coersed to the extreme to be social. It's part of existense in civilization. However, culturally, we have
overdosed on it to the point that we don't know who we are internally anymore because we've paid more attention to everything external instead of what is is inside of us. How do you know anything is true if you haven't had your own experience of it? Let's face it, we learn what we observe. You can tell a child to behave this way or that but they will parrot your behavior.Why? Because it's what they see, feel and experience that becomes what they learn. Be careful about this if you have kids. It's not what you say to them to do- it's what they see you are doing yourself that makes a behavior pattern.
Every person on the planet is different from each other. Just like snowflakes, unique and perfect. The trick in life is to experience and know how your own individual tool set, your physical body, your emotional feelings, and how your thoughts work, separately and together.
In the early years of development, we spend so much time training the young to get on as a group. Getting to know yourself should not require having others in the equation because it is futile. Yes, later in life perhaps, but not early on. Early on you need to become very well acquainted with you. Then later on you can relate yourself with others. But how can you relate to others when you have no familiarity with yourself, other than how you fall short in comparison to a false standard. The false standard being how you measure up to the "popularity" of the day. When I was twelve, several people said to me I should consider modeling because I was tall and slim and easy to look at. At seventeen, I got thinner and tried to do so. Do you know what the two top modeling agencies told me? "You don't have the right look." The right look at that time was one of two things: blonde and blue eyed with fine bones or exotic from the jungle. My look then was today's Ralph Lauren or an Abercombie Fitch, I was pretty but I didn't fit!
We don't know better or do we? I don't know if it's the media, TV, magazines or what, that has created such crazy notions of what is necessary for us to live, in confusion, not knowing we are confused.
So, back to love. What does all this have to do with what love feels like? Because how can we connect with others when we aren't fully connected to ourselves? We are like voids, unfull. How do you share with someone if you are empty? We have come to be such stimulation junkies, that it's like a love relationship is a form of entertainment. And then we are disappointed, because it's not what we thought. Love is not for our entertainment.( Although it is entertaining as times). Love is for our growth. Love gives you the opportunities
and challenges necessary to grow and rise to your fullest potential. And that is the real mission we are create
for. That stirs our longings for love. Love make us feel like becoming so much more than we already are.