In this profound talk,Alan Watts reveals a truth rarely discussed in spiritual circles: the hidden price of awakening when it comes to love and relationships.
Why do awakened souls often find themselves unable to connect romantically?
Watts explores the paradox, you become love itself, yet become impossible to love in the conventional sense.
When you awaken, you see through the game of romance that requires two incomplete selves desperately seeking completion.
You become utterly transparent, already whole, needing no one.
But most people want need meeting need, not wholeness meeting wholeness.
They want someone who will cling, suffer, and promise forever.
The awakened person can’t fake that anymore.
They love unconditionally, like the sun shining on everyone, but you can’t possess the sun.
And possession is what most mistake for love.
Know Thyself 