Love From Lack Demands Attack

The ego-self believes very intensely in “love” and understands that lack of love will result in a failure to adequately self-actualize (exist as “real”). The ego must then seek and find that which it lacks, and MUST have, in order to experience itself as "real."

But because the ego’s concept of “love” is not really love (just a concept of love) it must always experience lack. A lack of love results in guilt for failing to ‘have’ what the ego-self has determined necessary for actualizing itself and fully experiencing its existence. This experience of lack or absence is the cause of your guilt and it is this guilt you protect yourself from by attacking those who you believe are cause of your lack .

When an ego-self chooses another through which to experience “love,” any experience of lack or absence is symbolic of betrayal. Therefore the ego-self simply projects its experience of lack onto the other as cause.

Although the ego-self has absolutely NO correspondence with Deep Spirit, it does sense something much more powerful than itself. This causes it to construct concepts of love that have very little resemblance to a Deep Spirit love, but give it a delusional sense of control and power over that which it can never know. Since the ego can never really ‘know’ love, it works especially hard at finding its concept of love in a world of six billion competing concepts of love.

Therefore, although the ego believes strongly in its concept of “love,” it realizes that its concept of love is still always lacking, because it does not conform to this deeper truth that the ego senses but can never know.

Since the ego cannot correspond with Deep Spirit, this sense of lack causes guilt, because the experience of love must always be inadequate, which obstructs self-actualization. The ego can suffer through many states of mind, but guilt it must avoid at all costs, since to fully examine guilt would be to realize the very basis of the ego’s existence, which is empirically baseless with no actuality whatsoever.

In order to discard guilt, "you" simply makes someone else the reason for your lack of love. This is done by attacking them, thereby, magnifying a lack IN you by making someone OUTSIDE you guilty for your INNER lack. If the lack IN you is superimposed upon another, you will fail to fully engage with your guilt and instead see it as outside yourself and firmly lodged in another and you will engage in attacking them for depriving YOU of what you need to self-actualize.

An ego is defined as that which seeks to fill a lack. A non-lacking ego-self could not exist as an ego-self, since it would have no lack to identify WITH. To love from lack demands attack, because the ego will never accept that it is cause of its own experiences. You cannot love from a lack of love, because such an experience will only reinforce the lack which produced it.

To love from Deep Spirit is to no longer to rely on reinforcing lack through concepts of love. Deep Spirit is free of relative concepts, because it's true. Recognize that all your attacks are from an experience of lack IN you and have NOTHING to do with another.

You believe attack aids you in denying guilt by blaming the "world" for what is lacking IN you. Eventually, as you begin to play infinitely and allow concepts to recede in significance, lack must also recede and love need  no longer conform to a concept, but evolve as something more than you could have ever conceptualized.

This is because truth (or love) is not a concept and lacks nothing.


Artwork by Scott G Brooks - "Allegory of Love #26"