Why Love is More Than Just a Feeling...

Dr. Troy Munson delves into the complexities of love, exploring its multifaceted nature and various interpretations. He contrasts love with fear, presenting love as the wholeness of all experiences. Dr. Troy invites listeners on a journey to consider the universality of love beyond superficial definitions, pondering why love exists and how its profound, interconnected presence offers ultimate safety and completeness. He challenges traditional views and encourages embracing a mindset free from lack, inviting introspection on the essence of love and its ever-present nature deep within us.

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 Dr. Troy Munson explores the intricate relationship between desire, thought, and personal fulfillment. With a reflective tone, Dr. Troy engages the audience in a conversation that challenges conventional perceptions of fantasizing and arousal, presenting them as inherent aspects of human nature that drive our actions and emotions. He suggests that by understanding and contemplating these urges, one can attain a deeper sense of peace and enlightenment. Dr. Troy emphasizes the importance of distinguishing between beneficial and harmful desires. Touching on spiritual ideologies and the concept of letting go, he urges listeners to question their thoughts and contemplate them to unearth underlying truths. By rejecting negative fantasies and understanding the nature of arousal, individuals can move towards a state of inner tranquility. Dr. Troy's message is clear: to experience true joy and contentment, one must transcend the superficial allure of desires and uncover the boundless possibilities of a mind liberated from illusions.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
You're now listening to Words of Radiance with Doctor Troy Munson.
Hello and welcome. I'm doctor Troy. I love puzzles. I
love figuring things out. I love watching movies and knowing

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who did it, figuring it out before they tell you,
or knowing a plot of what they're going to do,
or when somebody's speaking and they're telling a story and
it's like, oh, yeah, that's what's gonna happen, and it's interesting.
And if you're one of those like me, then perhaps
before you listen to this entire podcast, you do some

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pondering yourself. And I'm gonna ask the question what is love?
And for some of us who might say, well, it's
a song by Hataway, what is love? There you go,
that's your your joy for the day of hearing doctor
Troy seeing how do I But some of us might say, well,
it's kind of a nuisance. Really, that's what love is.

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It's a waste, it isn't for me. Love is harsh,
love is awful, love is unkind. We might hear all
these things from people that are just gruntled. We might
even go with the biblical definition that you know, love
is patient, love is kind, love is you know, suffers
all things. Love never fails. We might quote those kinds

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of things, But still, what is love? And even more
important than that, why, Why is love? Is the ultimate
question we're gonna answer today. Now. In order to do that,
we might look at the opposite. Though, love really doesn't

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have an opposite, And if you've been around listening to
some of my podcasts, I've explored that concept fairly gratuitously.
And so for this point though, let's, just for the
sake of arguments, say, all right, what is the opposite
of love? Well, it is fear. Fear is the lack
of love, and we call it. We call it a name, fear.

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We've given it a title, even though it's this quote
unquote feeling of this lack. And so if we can
only have fear when we think we lack something, it
starts with a thought first, then what is love? Why
does love occur? Well, then it must be from something

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to So if if fear is the lack of love,
then love itself is the whole or complete of everything. Now,
we have this idea of love in our cultures, and
if anybody's ever been disrespected, or cheated on, or made

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to feel less than or abused that love turns to
hate quite readily, and we would say, well, if love
can turn to hate, which is a form of fear,
then you may not have had love at all. And
few people I think have really experienced true love. That's

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why you'll have some people say, well, love is sex,
that's what it is. That's how I know I'm in
love is if the sex is good. Well, that's always
a possibility and a very limited definition of the possibility of.
But ultimately, love is an emotion, and so if it

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is the only emotion of which we are truly capable of,
we might start asking the question why why love of Well,
imagine for a moment that you knew how everything was
going to work out. You could never lose a game,

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if you laid a bet down, you would never lose.
If you played baseball or basketball, or badminton or curling
or ping pong or whatever high ali if you're in
another country, if you knew you would never lose any
of these games. And if you played chess or checkers

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or cards or backgammon or whatever whatever game you wish
to play, you knew that you were always going to win.
You knew that every molecule that formed in a nebula,
and you knew the moment that even the largest of
stars was going to be formed. That also down to

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the small You knew that when a seed was good
to germinate and become whatever flower or tree or plant,
that you knew that every animal that was pregnant when
it was going to give birth, and the little furry
critter that was inside of it, whether a cat or
a dog or a kangaroo or whatever. And you knew

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every baby, every human that was going to be born
and watch it through its entire life. Nothing was beyond you.
You saw it all. Nothing was questionable, everything was certain,
everything was sure. Your certainty about everything that existed was complete.

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Now you might say, well, how boring, But again that's
a label that isn't really fitting. But perhaps maybe one
of the reasons we're here is to experience lack so
that when we felt true, real love, we would see
it for the first time, or at least seemingly the
first time, and then perhaps all of our thoughts and

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all of our ideas and all that we are, all
that God is that we are, would rush back into
us and we'd remember again, and we'd be like, Oh,
let's do it again. Was so good forgetting and then
remembering how amazing we are in the completeness of what
we are. The totality of what we are is that

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certainty and that safety, that absolute safety, that no threat,
nothing could threaten you in any shape or form. There
was never any worry because everything was certain, There was
never anything to fear, because you were one with everything.
How could you possibly lack? What a ludicrous thought at all?

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And in that moment, that overwhelming sense of peace and
connectedness and all that is and the joy of what
we are is that deep abiding love, because love never
stops loving. So explore love a little bit today, think

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about it in grand terms, majestic term, in grandeur, and wonder,
just for a moment, maybe maybe I could let go
of the entire lack of everything and just experience fully
love fully, peace fully joy all the time and fully complete.

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It's pretty awesome. What is love? Where is love? Why
is love? It's right there and it always has been
deep within you and me and everyone else. Until next time,
I'm doctor Troy. And remember you have nothing to do,
only something to see.