The Meaning of Love?

A wise man once said: "He who asks what the meaning of life is, have not blossomed in love." In every list on the requirements of Happiness or Longevity, you can be sure that a stable loving relationship will feature somewhere near the top. Yet this seems such an unattainable thing in today's world.

"Fixing my gaze upon the Eternal Light I saw within its depth, Bound up with love together in one volume, The scattered leaves of all the universe… Within the luminous profound substance Of that Exalted Light saw I three circles Of three colours yet of one dimension And by the second seemed the first reflected As rainbow is by rainbow and the third Seemed fire that equally from both is breathed." Dante

We do not even seem to know what love is anymore or worse that it is just a fantasy. Just tricks of nature, to further our chances of survival some would say. I read in relationships.blog-city.com "that in a recent paternity test evaluation by the American Association of Blood Banks it was found that 30% of the men tested were not the biological fathers of their children." Yet, it is nothing new, our ancestors knew about these desires and yearnings we still have even today. Why would it be that in most ancient societies lineage were determined from the maternal line of descend rather than paternal line? Why do we as women have such strong need for intense feelings? Simply to surrender to the male? I think we are a bit more complex than that. Could it be that we are looking for answers and satisfaction in all the wrong places?

Consider the following:" … within the limits of animals which propagate exclusively in the sexual mode (the division of vertebrates ), the higher we ascend in the hierarchy of organisms, the weaker the power of propagation becomes, but, on the other hand, the greater the power the power of sexual attraction becomes…So then, sexual love and propagation of the species are found to be in inverse ratio to each other: the more powerful the one, the weaker the other." Vladimir Solovyov - The Meaning of Love

Just look at us we invented birth control so we can enjoy our sexuality without reproductions, so lowering our rate of propagation even more. Anais Nin once asked: " Why does a gesture, a walk stir your blood? What mystery this is, desire. The love sickness, the sensitivity, the obsession, the flutter of the heart, the ebb and flow of the blood. There is no drug and no alcohol to equal it." Why were we given the longings and desires we have, if all we have to do is suppress them?

What is the meaning of love? I am surprised that in today's world where sex is so openly discussed and practised in such a liberal way, so little is said about sacred sex.

tags: sex  desire  sacred  love  spiritual