Different Levels of Love

There are multiple levels of love.

Level 1: The highest one is God’s love, or if you don’t believe in God, the source of all power, a spiritual love. When you feel this love, it brings you a sense of peace – a calmness within. If you are open to this love, it will grow, leaving a permanent smile on one’s face. It’s a sense of knowing, of being right with the world, a connection with all things.

Level 2: Emotional love. Ah, we all know this, don’t we? We think with our hearts, which is good, but it can also cripple us. In some, in a good way, can, along with a spiritual love, be the greatest and most powerful love out there, it’s what we crave for, but it’s rare to find. For those who do, is a true blessing–an eternal bond. This is what most of us crave for –need, but rarely get. Is it because we are undeserving? No, not at all. It’s because we have come across that one person that can bring that peace and love to our hearts in a soul-to-soul connection. It’s out there; we only need to find it.

Level 3: Then there is that one love, that is controlling ­– mental love. It’s where we believe we love someone, but instead of with our heart, we love with our mind. We believe we love, but in actuality, it’s an obsession, a need to control. This unhealthy love is the most dangerous love to have. Now, this does not happen with everyone, but we know it’s out there. We have to understand the difference. True love is from the heart, but love with no feeling except in the mind is mental, with no attachment. You think you love, therefore you love, but love without feeling, is no love at all.

Level 4: Sexual love. Yes, we all know it well. But, is it really love? Can we honestly say making love – com’on, we know what it really is, sex. Sexual love is not love, it’s a physical attachment, an emergence of our bodies in an act that for a short time gives us pleasure, a pleasure unfortunately that short lived, which for some of us is not enough; therefore, we seek it in in anyone and everyone just to feel that love again. One partner is never enough once that feeling dissipates.

Level 5: A soul-to-soul sexual love. Now, this is explosive, to connect on a soul-to-soul level, in the emergence of our hearts and bodies, is a love we all crave and try to achieve ­– it’s magic. When two individuals love with all their hearts and souls, a connection with the source of all power, for when you make love, you become one, and when you make love, you soar to the heavens, an out-of-body experience. Who doesn’t want this love? Most of us do. This love between two people will never end, a craving that will last for eternity.

Level 6: A spiritual love. No, not like the other above; this one is with God, for those who believe, or with nature. To love something that you believe is there but cannot see. This love falls with a priest, nuns, those who dedicate themselves to God, and those who dedicate themselves to nature. Yes, nature. There are those who are fully and completely attached to the planet, that the love they feel for the earth is enough, and that is okay. The planet is also alive, it feels, and it loves. Why shouldn’t there be those who love it back? It if wasn’t for the plants and trees, we wouldn’t be able to survive. They provide us with the oxygen and energy we need to survive. So, why wouldn’t there be those who love nature – the planet. It loves us by giving us what we need to survive. If it didn’t, we would cease to exist.

Level 7: Family love. Now, this is the simplest, but one of the purest love is our family. Our children – not everyone feels this love, and that is because when we are born into a family, there is no connection, and that is okay because it allows us to do what we need in this life without being tied down. Then, there are those who are so tight, that their love for their families is so strong that they cannot live without them. However, children, now that is a different kind of love, and for each one of us it is different. Yes, there are those who have children with no attachment; although this is sad, there is a reason for this as well. It takes those who recognize this to acknowledge it, allowing someone else to love for them.

By Ronny whitman