I'm not so sure about that JR, if it's a look forward or look backward situation, though you may be correct. It is said that things either grow or decay, nothing stays the same. My doubt is if this applies to things spiritual. If I reside at the level of the heart, isn't that who I am, as in that troublesome verb, 'to be'? I guess the question is, does the Stillpoint (Axis Mundi) only exist at the top chakra, or is there such a place for each level from the heart on up?However, if you're not at least looking in the direction of the seventh chakra, the thousand petaled crowning lotus of non-duality; if you're not striving to higher thought and existence by at least focusing on that not-quite attainable “smokey” horizon, then you must necessarily be training your attention on the opposite, lower forms of thought and existence of reproduction, hunger, and power (i.e. the material concerns of the temporal, literal, non-imaginative world).
Love. Hmmm. Down below I'd use 'lust', 'infatuation' or even 'addiction'. My, I remember a young lady when I was younger and very foolish who's mere proximity turned my knees to water and wiped every coherent thought out of my brain. Love, it wasn't. In the way was what it was. Purely biological. No stillpoint down thataways, no siree.You can fall in love with your car for example and have no patience for other people on the road. You can fall in love with money and do anything to gain it. You can fall in love with food and become a glutton. You can have a great passion for lovemaking, and yet be nothing more than a nymphomaniac.
Clemsy