cklarock

The ideal of romantic love that is represented by your own inner-mythical ideal relationship is really a metaphor for the path of action through which you can reconcile the parts of your personality that are on either side of a duality:

Masculine / Feminine
Adult / Childlike
Practical / Dreaming

. . .and the list goes on. The best love relationships help us to unite and synergize these opposites-- they illuminate part of the puzzle of self, but as humans, we tend to get caught up in the chemical rush and ascribe that sense of wholeness that we feel with the right partner *to* that partner.

In reality, the right partner is a cherished and honored messenger from Universal Consciousness (you can call it God if you want, I won't tell the hipster thought police) and that beautiful, unimaginably right thing you see in them is the light of your own soul reflected back into your eyes.

A romantic relationship, therefore, is a helpful shortcut for self-actualization, but is by no means required. In or out of love, it is ultimately our own eternal truths that we celebrate via our innane American Hallmark-raditions.

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I love:

My Proof that Jah Love,
My mother (RIP) -- she always sent me valentines
My brother and father
My brother from another mother
My goddaughters
My friends fighting overseas and the loved-ones they left behind
And all of you.

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I wish that I could ask you all to be my valentine this year, but I already have an exclusive one, and plus, many of you have significant others who may be tougher, more aggressive and/or better armed than I am. They probably won't be better trained.

Much love to you all, all day e'ery day.