Love’s Sovereignty

~ Written February 14, 2026. Reflections on love, inner wholeness, and the sovereignty of one’s own being.

While romantic love is often idolized in common culture, the truth be told, it’s one of the weakest and most fleeting expressions of love. Love of God, deep authentic friendship, spiritual connection, immersion in nature, and genuine camaraderie are each, in themselves alone, much more powerful and pure embodiments of true love. Even the endearing unconditional love shared between animal and human is much more dependable, sustaining, and enduring than the fleeting highs and lows of romantic love alone.

We’ve been erroneously conditioned our whole lives to believe that the desire, passion, and longing characterized within romantic love are the hallmarks of “being in love.” Yet the truth is that while these feelings may deeply stir our emotions, they do little to actually put us more in touch with our own inner completeness, our natural sense of wholeness. On the contrary, these fleeting emotions often serve to pull us further away from the truth, power, and beautiful sovereignty of our own inner being.

Today I will not subscribe to the delusion that romantic love is the highest and most ideal form of love. If it comes, I will welcome and honor its playful dance and expression with integrity. Yet I will not abandon myself in that singular instance of love’s expression. Instead, I will continually honor, prioritize, and nurture the many other higher forms of love’s expression that are available and present in my life today.

~ Shambo