{"id":2149,"date":"2025-05-09T17:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T17:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/nonduality-and-romantic-love\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T17:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T17:46:12","slug":"nonduality-and-romantic-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/nonduality-and-romantic-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonduality and Romantic Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I know some things about transcendence<br>\nand spiritual experiences,<br>\nI often think I should be beyond the human need<br>\nfor romantic love.<\/p>\n<p>I should be more about the Oneness, the nonduality,<br>\nthe eternal bliss consciousness that supposedly<br>\nis beyond conditional love and is everlasting.<\/p>\n<p>I should be clearly aware that even if I found<br>\nthe love of my life at 80, it would only be<br>\ntemporary when one of us died and left the other unlike<br>\nthe permanence of eternal bliss consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s a deficiency in me that sometimes makes<br>\nromantic feelings arise and hope that those who don\u2019t find<br>\ntheir true loves in this life find them in the afterlife.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I\u2019m more a romantic than a mystic<br>\ndespite my 24\/7 spiritual experience. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe I\u2019ll be a romantic mystic when I die<br>\nand ride unicorns in crystalline skies in<br>\nexpanded states of consciousness with<br>\na long awaited soulmate that is heavenly and<br>\nperfect in every way for me.<\/p>\n<p>More likely, I\u2019ve been listening to too many old<br>\nlove songs today, lol.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I know some things about transcendence and spiritual experiences, I often think I should be beyond the human need for romantic love. I should be more about the Oneness, the nonduality, the eternal bliss consciousness that supposedly is beyond conditional love and is everlasting. I should be clearly aware that even if I found&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/nonduality-and-romantic-love\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}