Love & attachment.
If I think of the word “attachment” within the context of spirituality, I think of a person grasping something with the intention of exerting some type of control over it. This can be in the form of other people, activities, belief systems, situations and much more.
Love, often being the most enjoyable experience that we have on this planet, can be a prime candidate for attracting attachment. We usually want more of what we love and less of what we don’t love. This would seem both intuitively and logically obvious - we get attached to things that make us feel good in some way. So if you don’t want something to get away from you or you want to make sure it stays in your life, you would probably at the very least try to grasp it in some way.
The reason we form attachments is, therefore, that we are usually perceiving some type of lack or loss within our reality. The attachment is there because ultimately you are feeling that if you do not attach yourself to this person, situation, circumstance or whatever else, then it may go away and you will not have it anymore. If you knew, totally and utterly, one hundred percent, that this thing was not going to leave you if you let go of it, there would be absolutely no need to maintain the grasp and you would let it be free. You would not only let it be free, but you would also be completely free yourself to enjoy it in that very moment. The experience would be unencumbered by the chains of the attachment. The attachment you have ensures that you are actually not enjoying life to the fullest.
The perception of lack or loss comes from a lack of understanding of what we really are within. Therefore, we are always looking outside of ourselves to fill the perceived gaps or spaces that we think we have. This can be most easily seen in our relationships. If someone thinks that they lack love within their reality (which really means that they are not fully connecting to the love within themselves), then they are more prone to forming attachments to a person that gives them love. If this person was able to connect to their very own essence of infinite, unconditional love, they would understand that the other person can never add or take away from their love. They would not seek to grasp the love from the other person and would enjoy it in that moment, as a pure manifestation and reflection of their own infinite being and essence. The person would know that they are enough.
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