[7luminaries]

LOL ...well I disagree that it is rare to find folks who don't want anything whilst giving lovingkindness to others. Lovingkindness or authentic love, freely given, is actually quite common to many types of relationships but extremely rare in other relationships.

Meaning, even though it is not always present all the time etc., there are definitely key relationships in most folks lives -- at least a few key ones -- where folks have regularly and continually experienced authentic love (given and received) from others. Or have received it at least sometimes from some people.

Meaning, it is commonly received from parents, from children, from beloved family, and from beloved friends. And likewise it is commonly given by many if not most folks to some or all of these folks in return. At least from/to some of them, some of the times.

But where authentic, agape love is regularly and persistently missing is in male-female adult non-familial relationships. It has never been present historically worldwide, and nor is it in the current day...unless very rarely, the stuff of poets and gurus.

BUT...it does not have to be this way. The moment the heart opens to authentic love and lovingkindness, we can bring this love into every moment and to every person, in any kind of relationship. Including male-female adult non-familial relationships.

It is one of humanity's greatest current challenges, to bring authentic love as a normative and commonplace way of being to male-female relationships. And it is a challenge that perhaps more than any other has the potential to greatly transform humanity and its current state of consciousness. And to then continually generate and manifest authentic love into all other aspects of our existence.

Peace & blessings
7L