The Art of Loving and the Wisdom of Detachment

What is detachment? Why is it important?

You need power to remain free the influence of others. Detachment is this power. If you can’t stay detached from influences you will not be able to keep your thoughts under control. From there it will be downward spiral until all trace of inner well-being is lost.
The first step is to understand who you are as a spiritual being/entity. This allows you to “detach” yourself from your physical identity, and its world of limited thoughts and feelings, and “attach” instead to your spiritual personality, the being of inner peace and power.
A normal day will be filled with challenges to this detachment. On the one side will be your spiritual awareness, but on the other side will be the attraction towards human beings and the material world. Detachment is not a question of becoming separate from the latter, but of simply remaining conscious of yourself as a spiritual being whilst being in the world and playing your part. Detachment simply means to keep yourself centred in your spirituality.

Can detachment and love go together? Definitely! It's when love begin to surface when is unattached.

Detachment is the art of loving. I have to learn this art. Detachment is a talent as well as an art. It is developed through soul consciousness which, together with a deep relationship with God, will keep me from being deceived by the attraction of limited love. It means to be so centred in the consciousness of my true spiritual nature that there is a natural, automatic rejection of adverse personality traits within me and illusionary attractions around me. Detachment allows me to be unaffected by these and so able to continue cultivating the values, qualities and virtues of my spiritual personality.

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