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Veronika Bond's avatar

I totally agree. Conditional 'love' is not love at all. It's a transaction, often manipulative, and the pressure increases over time. In my view 'Valentine's day' is a truly sad concept. It's only because transactional 'love' is so popular it can be commercialised.

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Elliot Murray's avatar

There is no love in money and money makes the world go around. Conditional love is an artificial substitute for real love and money is it's currency, not frequency. Holding the frequency of love within us is only possible when we are true to ourselves. Pure love is pure consciousness - you just have to look at a baby to see in its innocence a purity beyond this world. Love is our inner true nature and not an affectation of a self that has forgotten its true essence. And artificial experience of life produces artificial egos capable only of artifical love. Which in actuality is a very poor substitute and holds no frequency of love, only the appearance of it. This is what we should expect from a society that places so much importance on what other people think about us, within the context of self identity. Real self knowledge in an internal experience of self, not somebody else's opinion. Yet, the collective masses of humanity have been herded into artificial lifestyles that produce artificial humans barely capable of recognising their trueselves and almost only capable having artificial experiences. Often, they are more concerned about what their neighbours think of them than what love they hold for their own children. Thank you Veronika 🙏

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Veronika Bond's avatar

true, and so sad!! No wonder we are struggling so much to love ourselves...

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Elliot Murray's avatar

It is sad. It is tragic and a travesty. To be normal in this world is to live in a state of alienation from our true selves unless by some kind of miracle we are able to avoid it.

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Veronika Bond's avatar

... and if avoidance is not possible, there are ways to re-member those 'true selves', ways to practice being ourselves, to kindle that miracle and finally fall in love with ourselves.

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Joyce's avatar

Thank you, Veronica. There can be no conditionality in love but sadly, it is what can be seen all around us. The commercialisation of ‘love’ appears to culminate in those ‘special’ days like Valentine’s day. A far cry from the unconditional love that does not demand but simply ‘is’.

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Amaterasu Solar's avatar

Love always!

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Elliot Murray's avatar

Love always 🙏💜🙏

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