UNREQUITED LOVE AS A SPRINGBOARD TO OUR SPIRITUAL ADVANCEMENT AND UNFOLDING

A poem, still being edited that speaks of the spiritual significance and power of unrequited love.

Few of us manage to go through life without having our hearts broken, or without experiencing that unique pain associated with a love that is not requited, that is not returned. These matters can be devastating, they can colour many of our future relationships, and they can, of course, be lived through. They say that ‘time is a great healer’, and so it is. But when we have ‘loved and lost’, the answer is not always to lose that love, or at last fall out of that love. Love is an interesting phenomenon. We may not realise it, but when we fall for someone our souls, spirits, psyches – call it what we will – become entangled. It is why, when we love, we so want and need to be with the person with whom we have fallen in love. It is why we feel pain when we are apart, whether temporarily or permanently. These are spiritual ‘things’ though we may not be able to acknowledge that fact. It is why falling in love is so profound, so meaningful, so powerful; and so often painful. The key to the universe is its ultimate ONENESS. When we fall in love, we come closer to being ONE with another human being. That is humanly and emotionally powerful. It is also spiritually profound.

When love is unrequited, it is still possible to continue to love the object of our love. Ideally our romantic love is transmuted into something even more spiritually meaningful. A love that seeks nothing for oneself; a love that rejoices in the other persons loves that are actually for others.

Love involves us in spiritual awakening, it is a sacred and God-like experience. It can bring us into ONENESS with another person and thereby accelerate our journey into wholeness, or it can enable us to transcend our ‘lower’ needs and achieve a feeling for another that can be sublime and holy.

It is not just time that can be a healer; it can be our spiritually-awakening selves.