What is Love? A Spiritual Perspective

<p>Are you dealing with any of this?</p><p>1. You feel you'll never be able to truly love yourself&nbsp;</p><p>2. You can never be able to fully love yourself if you don't accept all aspects of yourself.&nbsp;</p><p>3. You're confused about what real love is&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode you will learn:&nbsp;</p><p>1. The definition of love as complete acceptance, and how this can be applied to self love and to love for others.&nbsp;</p><p>2. The difference between love and hate, and how hate is often based on dehumanization.&nbsp;</p><p>3. The dangers of propaganda, and how it can be used to promote hatred and bigotry.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>"When you have self acceptance, when you have self love, what you have, what you get out of that is you get a sense of discrimination about your motivations for doing certain things."</strong></p><p><br></p><p>I was raised hearing a lot of hateful rhetoric. Things like "What is wrong with you?" or "You're not as human as I am." I never wanted to use words like that. To me, love is complete acceptance. And hatred is complete rejection. I try to practice love in my everyday life, but sometimes it's hard. Especially when I see the hate that's happening in the world. There's a movement right now that's trying to program empathy out of people. And I think it's because they want to be able to treat others as less than human. This is a dangerous thing, and I hope that more people can learn to love instead of hate.</p><p>In this episode, you will learn the following:</p><p>1. The definition of love as complete acceptance and how this can be applied to self-love and to love for others.</p><p>2. The difference between love and hate and how hate is often based on dehumanization.</p><p>3. The dangers of propaganda and how it can be used to promote hatred and bigotry.</p><p><strong>Chapter Summaries:</strong></p><p>[00:00:28] - John Moore is a shamanic practitioner and spiritual teacher. He is going to talk about love from a spiritual perspective. As someone who practices sham