Lust is desire for the gratification and pleasure of having a sexual encounter with another person, a want to enhance one's sense of self through validation, sexual conquest and sexual release/satisfaction. It is a superficial animal attraction, and comes from a place of deep lack, seeking fulfillment through others. It is the mind's belief that it can find satisfaction through pleasure, an egoic desire for self enhancement through the validation gained from having another person reciprocate your lust and confirm your attractiveness. Pleasure when engaged in unconsciously only begets pain.

Love is the joy of Being combined with an overwhelming gratitude for all that is. Love is spiritual, it is not an emotion, for it arises from beyond the mind. Between two people it is a merging of concsciousness in the presence of two becoming one, the recognition in another of a deep oneness within yourself. It comes from a place of overflowing fullness, completely selfless, seeking nothing. To feel love for someone is to be grateful for their being to the point where your heart overflows with joy. It is a state of deep peace, contentment, and bliss.

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Be here, Be Now.