Love Is Not a Feeling. What Is It, Then?

Main subjects

AVAlexander VolchekOSOlga StolyarovaLove, help, and rescuing othersLoveLove as actionSpiritual development and the spiritual path

What is said here

• 00:00It is an extraordinary exercise that changes the course of events in your life. It does not simply affect your perception; it changes what happens in your life.Love
• 01:12Imagine having an intention whenever you meet anyone—your husband, wife, parents, children, bosses, managers, employees, people in town…Children · Wife
• 02:34It is much easier to practice a musical instrument, learn a foreign language, or do any number of things—but not this.Love
• 03:57But I have not immersed my whole spiritual being in love for everyone watching, in the mental sense. This distinction is important. When I ask you to imagine…Spirit · Love · Awareness
• 05:13We are talking about mental awareness: continually checking yourself. To reach that state, you need to set yourself a task.Children · Spirit
• 11:19Communicate that way. Set yourself that task every time. We will examine the development of the spiritual system separately.Spirit · Love · The Universe
• 12:46Then it is easy to attune to the light. Even if you cannot do that and see only a demon in front of you—only a demon—with nobody else…Love
• 17:00A great many people will therefore never approach this question in their current incarnation. They will have to approach it later; eventually, they will have to.Meditation · Spirit · Love
• 18:26Those meditations aim to expand your consciousness and perception. What does expanded perception make possible?Truth · Expanded perception
• 19:51They may start experiencing much worse things. When speaking with someone, they may suddenly begin to see, in addition to what they expected…Spirit

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• 01:12

  Imagine having an intention whenever you meet anyone—your husband, wife, parents, children, bosses, managers, employees, clients, neighbors, people in town or in a store, absolutely anyone.

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• 04:03

  This distinction is important. When I ask you to imagine directing love, I mean a particular mental quality.

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• 10:32

  It is very important for the modern human soul to develop knowledge of its own actions and the truth of its path.

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• 11:41

  I always explain that whatever a person does, whatever happens, it is part of the structure of cause and effect in the world and the Universe.

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• 13:06

  It is not something you can seize and possess. Someone asks, “Why should I send out love?” But it is not yours.

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• 14:13

  Then you can always attune to the light at the core of that person's spiritual being.

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• 16:39

  Some people say, “I think it is okay to harm people.”

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• 17:11

  Everyone's life will contain opportunities and situations in which they can see it.

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• 18:35

  At the right moment, while you are speaking with someone, expanded perception gives you the energy to perceive them from the truth of love, rather than only from a tiny current of your personality or a subpersonality that, at that moment…

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• 19:57

  When speaking with someone, alongside the impulse to manipulate them, they may suddenly see how bad that person is, for example.

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