Greetings....
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>>uh huh
Depends how you define lust, doesn't it? Lust is part of desire. It's hard to get to mature love without a little desire somewhere. Lust attracts- and without a little attraction it's hard to arrive at man/woman love. You can have parental love without lust- but it's hard to get to BE a parent without a little lust.>>
Agree, we are all animals at the core in one aspect of our humanity.
>>Seems to me far from being a black hole lust is part of the life force. It can be negative if you act purely on lust.>>
Yup.
>>Some people never get past lust. And of course if you live on lust you'll have to move on- since lust really isn't sustainable in a monogamous relationship (imo).>>
Agree.
>>And lust most certainly is risk. Ask any guy whose ever asked a girl out, or any girl whose asked out a guy. Or any guy who reached out to touch some woman's breast for the first time, or grabbed her to give her a first kiss (or a girl touching something equivalent for I HEAR girls are quite forward these days). Lust Love Life- everything is risk. There is nothing safe.>>
Lust comes from that side of ourselves that wants to take, possess and control. In most relationships, if you are "getting" what you want in a way which satisfies this need to take/possess/control your relationship will continue to bounce along over these ego speed bumps and holes until there's too much friction and the quid pro quo benefits from this defined-expectational fixed pie energy tap out.
This isn't risk. It's simply an energy exchange between two parties. And the one side that feels they are getting the short end of the stick on the exchange ends up exiting.
There are extreme examples of these energy exchanges leading to all kinds of weird forms of abuse, control, etc. Both parties enable each other - one seeking control, the other giving up their energy and power out of weakness, self-hate or pity.
Again, this isn't risk. It's an exchange.
Real risk goes higher and taps into the belief, faith and hope from an unlimited inner energy store which the lover simply wants to humbly share with others. This move higher than the horizontal "dog eat dog" quid pro quo "exchanges" of energy in the form of lust, etc.
>>Your platitudes are silly. Life is infinitely more complicated than you seem to think it is. They really ought to fold you up and stick you on a greeting card. One of those weird new age ones.>>
Yup, that's how most people think about this stuff. I'm sorry you agree with them. For life doesn't have to be "infinitely more complicated."
Just ask any child.
Peace.
GO!!
BTW: The word "GO" is the embodiment of this simple view. And yes, you can actually fold it up in a greeting card if you like. The simplest things are the greatest. |
