Feigning unconditional love.

[zvonimir]

“Start by contemplating your motives for giving or loving. In other words, when you are ‘giving’, what do you personally stand to lose or gain from that giv- ing? Is there a selfish motive involved at all? If so, it contaminates any real unselfish giving and Love that may have been there also. When you are ‘loving’, what will you be getting back from the one you ‘love’? For instance, if you give a gift to your lover, don’t you expect to get gratitude and extra affection? Selfish motives are behind giving or loving in what would be called a ‘normal’ relationship. Often, even when people give to their lover, there is a subtle motive to get something back. Because when you give to your lover, feeding their wants and desires, they like it, they ‘get off on it’ as you put it - then they like you because you are giving them the things or feelings they want - and we know that. Thus YOU get a response from them that ‘gets YOU off’. That’s ideally how it works in a normal relation- ship, but it’s often not the case. There is also an expectation of reciprocation, which is ultimately never met.”

from book "The Children of The Law of One & The Lost Teachings of Atlantis"

interesting to me is that almost any time some new question posts appear on forum i read a meaningful part on it from 1 book or other ,