Recent Reply to a MySpace Message
I read your blog "happiness". I think the "true love" you mean to say doesn't exist is the one that our culture describes as having a subject, that is "true love" of a particular thing or person. It's not really "true" by nature of its limitation, & the necessity of its limited subject to change. In other words, if you direct love to a thing or person, it must change (hopefully grow) as your experience of that thing changes (hopefully grows). Unconditional love of a person is described as a very high form of love, but true unconditional love would not be dependent on even the condition of subject, i.e. it should be applicable to any & all things/people. You described it as an emotion that you should feel for yourself because in the long run you're the only person that won't "fuck you over". I propose that we can call love more than an emotion, but really extend its definition to be any experience that is without fear. Conversely, I think we could describe being "fucked over" as being any experience that we do fear! Sometimes we do fuck ourselves over! And there are many experiences of things thought to be outside of our "human self" that we should be able to have without fear. Speaking of the long run, however, I think it is useful to entertain the theory that all things in the universe are parts of our Self. I think we're all learning to love ourselves, & not fuck ourselves over, & that this must include growing to include all things of the universe as equal but different conditions of our Self, & loving all experiences of the universe. We fear to do so entirely, but by this fear we fuck ourselves over!
I hope you don't mind my ramble but this is one of my favorite subjects! :P