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Love is a "connection" energy. It's how "opposites" attract to each other. Don't just think about the "human love". That is not enough for magic. Yang loves Ying. The conscious loves the unconscious. The opposite of love is not entirely hate. It's indifference. When you have hate you have a "connection" already. You can't hate a thing you have 0 connection towards. Hate actually connects. You will stay with the thing you hate until you stop hating it in one way or the other. This is why "letting go" is important.
When you can understand and feel "cosmic love" you can use it as a "conduit" in a harmonic way. It's hard to explain what it is. You have to experiment with your own love first and how does it feel and what makes it "flow" then expand it to greater concepts. Like think about how earth is a "trap" or "prison planet". It loves us so if we are not strong enough we cannot depart from it. If you can make your love one with gravity you can get anything from the heavens/hell. I can write a lot about love but not in a romantic way. But you must understand love in the emotional way too before you can use it in a "pure concept" way.
> accepting its imperfections and maybe even the nasty stuff with it
funny thing I can bend my perception so I don't see imperfection and nasty stuff anymore. Only beauty. When I noticed that 2 months ago I didn't know what to say. I found the "switch" in my mind that makes me see ugliness and or beauty.