What is Love?
Love is immanent and transcendent. In its immanence, it is the connecting power of all things; in its transcendence it is the individualizing and personalizing power of all things. In its immanence , love offers the power of freedom, in its transcendence it offers the power of creativity. The power of love in its immanence involves a person in the entire cosmos; the power of love in its transcendence frees a person from the tyranny of necessity and society.
Love is not merely a sentimental feeling nor an act of will nor a bodily event. Love comes from the whole being and acts synchronistically. Love is a spiritual event. Love originates from the inmost spirit, not from the body, nor from nature nor from the ego. Love is guided by inspiration and not by calculation. Love is a gift, not a trade or a purchase. Love has no strings of manipulation. Love offers ties that bind but do not control. Love is letting a butterfly land on your head, not catching the butterfly in a net. Love binds you only to freedom and creativity.
Love is feminine softness and masculine purpose. Love is feminine reasoning and masculine feeling. Love is a christological lifelong adventure in discovering and living the divine-human mystery. Love is the Cosmic Christ incarnated in the present moment. Love shines upon nature and society, but arises from the depths of the heart and the heights of the spiritual sun. Love depends not upon its object, but upon its subject; yet love finds the hidden subject in the obvious object.
Love is an interpersonal exchange of energy. Love informs and transforms. Love is a flow from God through the human back to God. Love is God communing with humanity and humanity communing with God. Love is a circle that has no beginning and no end. Love is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.
The cosmos is the child of Love. Mankind is the child of love. Nature is the child of love. Even society is the child of love but also of fear and bondage. Love is what frees us from bondage and fear; and love frees us for the heights of human creativity. Love frees us from the necessity of pleasure and frees us for the joy of pleasure. Love frees us from the tyranny of sex and frees us for the choice of sex. Love can be very tender and very tough, but the tenderness pervades any toughness and creates a gentleman. Love is not from society, but for society. Love which arises from society per se binds one to the social averages. Love which arises from God transforms the social averages.
When you face death, you will remember only the things you love. Everything else fades into unimportance.
Love is not merely a sentimental feeling nor an act of will nor a bodily event. Love comes from the whole being and acts synchronistically. Love is a spiritual event. Love originates from the inmost spirit, not from the body, nor from nature nor from the ego. Love is guided by inspiration and not by calculation. Love is a gift, not a trade or a purchase. Love has no strings of manipulation. Love offers ties that bind but do not control. Love is letting a butterfly land on your head, not catching the butterfly in a net. Love binds you only to freedom and creativity.
Love is feminine softness and masculine purpose. Love is feminine reasoning and masculine feeling. Love is a christological lifelong adventure in discovering and living the divine-human mystery. Love is the Cosmic Christ incarnated in the present moment. Love shines upon nature and society, but arises from the depths of the heart and the heights of the spiritual sun. Love depends not upon its object, but upon its subject; yet love finds the hidden subject in the obvious object.
Love is an interpersonal exchange of energy. Love informs and transforms. Love is a flow from God through the human back to God. Love is God communing with humanity and humanity communing with God. Love is a circle that has no beginning and no end. Love is a circle whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.
The cosmos is the child of Love. Mankind is the child of love. Nature is the child of love. Even society is the child of love but also of fear and bondage. Love is what frees us from bondage and fear; and love frees us for the heights of human creativity. Love frees us from the necessity of pleasure and frees us for the joy of pleasure. Love frees us from the tyranny of sex and frees us for the choice of sex. Love can be very tender and very tough, but the tenderness pervades any toughness and creates a gentleman. Love is not from society, but for society. Love which arises from society per se binds one to the social averages. Love which arises from God transforms the social averages.
When you face death, you will remember only the things you love. Everything else fades into unimportance.
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