UNREQUITED LOVE AS A SPRINGBOARD TO OUR SPIRITUAL ADVAN...

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UNREQUITED LOVE AS A SPRINGBOARD TO OUR SPIRITUAL ADVANCEMENT AND SPIRITUAL UNFOLDING INTO THE SACRED. UNREQUITED LOVE AS A SPRINGBOARD TO OUR SPIRITUAL, MYSTICAL AND INDEED SACRED PILGRIMAGE TOWARDS ONENESS WITH THE ALL, WHICH IS WHAT WE CALL GOD. 

A poem, still being edited that speaks of the spiritual significance and sacred power of unrequited love.
Few of us manage to go through life without having our hearts broken, or without experiencing that unique pain associated with a love that is not requited, that is not returned. These matters can be devastating, they can colour many of our future relationships, and they can, of course, be lived through. They say that ‘time is a great healer’, and so it is. But when we have ‘loved and lost’, the answer is not always to lose that love, or at last fall out of that love. Love is an interesting phenomenon. We may not realise it, but when we fall for someone our souls, spirits, psyches – call it what we will – become spiritually entangled. It is why, when we love, we so want and need to be with the person with whom we have fallen in love. It is why we feel pain when we are apart, whether temporarily or permanently. These are spiritual and indeed sacred ‘things’ though we may not be able to acknowledge that fact. It is why falling in love is so profound, so meaningful, so powerful; and so often painful. The key to the universe is its ultimate ONENESS. When we fall in love, we come closer to being ONE with another human being. That is humanly and emotionally powerful. It is also spiritually profound.
When love is unrequited, it is still possible to continue to love the object of our love. Ideally our romantic love is transmuted into something even more spiritually meaningful. A love that seeks nothing for oneself; a love that rejoices in the other person’s loves that are actually for others.
Love involves us in spiritual awakening, it is a sacred and God-like experience. It can bring us into ONENESS with another person and thereby accelerate our journey into wholeness, or it can enable us to transcend our ‘lower’ needs and achieve a feeling for another that can be sublime and holy.
It is not just time that can be a healer; it can be our spiritually-awakening selves.

NEW LOVES FOR OLD, FOR LOVE IS THE KEY TO THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE AND THE ONGOING EXISTENCE OF THE UNIVERSE, AND THE TRUE MEANING AND PURPOSE OF THE UNIVERSE. AND WHEN WE AT LAST AWAKEN TO THAT PROFOUND TRUTH, AND LIVE IT IN OUR VERY HEARTS AND OUR VERY LIVES, SO SHALL COME OUR SPIRITUAL HEALING OF OURSELVES, OF EACH OTHER, OF OUR COMMUNITIES AND OF OUR MOTHER EARTH, OUR HOLY GAIA.

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NEW LOVES FOR OLD

Our natural desires for the opposite sex are a potential source of profound spiritual progress. If we can translate our natural desire for those we should not, or cannot, be physically involved with into platonic love, then we can leap forward. This will happen over the centuries ahead. Men and women will form beautiful platonic relationships.

I saw her the other day, that girl who stole my heart

I saw her with the boy who’d ripped my soul apart.

I watched them arm in arm, I saw sweet love in her face

I knew the truth and felt it, I'd surely lost the race.

It was a day of torment, a day for hiding tears

A day to merge with all days, descending down the years.

I watched them hand in hand, their sweet faces all aglow

I felt my life was over, I felt the bitter blow

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But now days have gone by, and even long years have passed

Yet throughout that time I knew my love would always last.

And so it has, a deeper love, a love with no pain

A love for her and who she loves: love that seeks no gain.

I have transcended love, for love has been transmuted

I have transcended pain, for pain has been commuted

I understand love now, and rejoice in my knowing,

And so my knowing God is now forever growing

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That old love for her awoke me deep down in my soul.

It is my new love for her that at last makes me whole.

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