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The best way to understand anything is to love it and savor its beauty.
Topic being love I intend broaching it as a philophile [Lover of love].
Greek root philein means “loving”. When I did so, I found love to be,
First the word Love is a universal live wire used for everything from
the silly to the sublime. Second, unfortunately, the verb love is used
as a transitive verb. So when linguistically communicated love must
have some external object or some external aspect of what we love.
But every love and everyone’s love has uniqueness to it. That’s why
the same thing or person is loved for different reasons, at several
levels and varying degrees of intensity. But real love with total
intensity and intense totality goes beyond the external things and
becomes one with the spirit and soul of the beloved, that is, when the
live wholesome flow happens and two or more points in the flow
get connected. As Song of Solomon puts it, "I am my beloved, and my
beloved is me." Reciprocity is embedded in Love. So when we
give love we get love. Tsekung asked, “Is there one word that can
serve as a principle of conduct of life” and Confucius replied, “It is the
word SHU meaning ‘reciprocity’ .So when you give love you can only
get love. This is not a slogan but a logical truth.
2] Love is divine.
The word religion means ‘linking of the part with the whole’ i.e.
communion, from the Latin roots re- again, ligare-to link. So the best
way to understand love is to be part of it, participate in it, get
immersed into it with our heart and savor its beauty. As Helen Keller
remarks "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be
seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."