I think a lot of it has to do with God. He is expressing how he is tired of the romantic love and is wondering if their is a "Higher Love" that goes beyond romance and condition. Uncoditional love, of which God is, if you put religion aside.
It's a great song and I think it gives a great perspective of God. Too often, religions including traditional Christianity, have made God out to be something it/he/she is NOT.
Winwood is also expressing how God, the REAL God of unconditional love, is also within us. That God is all of us and that we are "higher" than our physical body, but how it is also hard to realize that because we get caught up in this world all the time ("Where's that higher love I keep thinking of?").
I agree! I don't like to use the world "God", because it connotes a deity that demands worship, has an anthropomorphic personality, gets involved in people's lives, etc, that is connected with this world's organized religions. But the higher power out there that exists, I do not believe it is anything like that at all. It is not self-aware or has a personality, or feels emotion, it doesn't feel love, it IS love, it isn't conscious, it IS consciousness, and it's not out there, but inside all of us and everything that makes up the universe. It is indeed "down...
I agree! I don't like to use the world "God", because it connotes a deity that demands worship, has an anthropomorphic personality, gets involved in people's lives, etc, that is connected with this world's organized religions. But the higher power out there that exists, I do not believe it is anything like that at all. It is not self-aware or has a personality, or feels emotion, it doesn't feel love, it IS love, it isn't conscious, it IS consciousness, and it's not out there, but inside all of us and everything that makes up the universe. It is indeed "down in the heart" AND "hidden in the stars above...because it is the very universe itself. I think the concept of the "Force", from Star Wars best describes it...it is in everyone and everything...and in each life people get too caught up in the world they're in and in the insular, limited, parochial concepts of that world to realize the much bigger picture out there.
I think a lot of it has to do with God. He is expressing how he is tired of the romantic love and is wondering if their is a "Higher Love" that goes beyond romance and condition. Uncoditional love, of which God is, if you put religion aside.
It's a great song and I think it gives a great perspective of God. Too often, religions including traditional Christianity, have made God out to be something it/he/she is NOT.
Winwood is also expressing how God, the REAL God of unconditional love, is also within us. That God is all of us and that we are "higher" than our physical body, but how it is also hard to realize that because we get caught up in this world all the time ("Where's that higher love I keep thinking of?").
I agree! I don't like to use the world "God", because it connotes a deity that demands worship, has an anthropomorphic personality, gets involved in people's lives, etc, that is connected with this world's organized religions. But the higher power out there that exists, I do not believe it is anything like that at all. It is not self-aware or has a personality, or feels emotion, it doesn't feel love, it IS love, it isn't conscious, it IS consciousness, and it's not out there, but inside all of us and everything that makes up the universe. It is indeed "down...
I agree! I don't like to use the world "God", because it connotes a deity that demands worship, has an anthropomorphic personality, gets involved in people's lives, etc, that is connected with this world's organized religions. But the higher power out there that exists, I do not believe it is anything like that at all. It is not self-aware or has a personality, or feels emotion, it doesn't feel love, it IS love, it isn't conscious, it IS consciousness, and it's not out there, but inside all of us and everything that makes up the universe. It is indeed "down in the heart" AND "hidden in the stars above...because it is the very universe itself. I think the concept of the "Force", from Star Wars best describes it...it is in everyone and everything...and in each life people get too caught up in the world they're in and in the insular, limited, parochial concepts of that world to realize the much bigger picture out there.
Completely agree! It's very comforting to see that there are other people in the world who can see, feel and know these things.
Completely agree! It's very comforting to see that there are other people in the world who can see, feel and know these things.