What Is Love as a Spiritual Practice?

Love as a spiritual practice means treating relationship as a place for training awareness, capacity, and truth — not as a place to unconsciously get your needs met.

Most people approach love as something that should “work” once they find the right person. When it doesn’t, they assume something is wrong — with themselves or with the relationship. A spiritual approach to love starts from a different assumption: that relationship is meant to shape us.

In this view, relationship becomes a classroom. Every trigger reveals a pattern. Every conflict exposes a belief. Every moment of closeness asks for presence rather than performance. Love is no longer about intensity or chemistry alone, but about the capacity to stay present with another human being.

Insight alone is not enough. A spiritual practice requires repetition, humility, and willingness. It asks us to notice when we abandon ourselves, when we avoid truth, and when we choose comfort over growth.

Love deepens not because it feels good all the time, but because we are willing to stay awake inside it. With Love Beatrice