What is love? LO23080

Nick Heap (nickheap@tesco.net)
Mon, 1 Nov 1999 10:29:08 -0000

Replying to LO23060 --

Dear Chuck

I think we can think about things we can't define. Higher things are more
difficult to define. Even if they can't be defined at all, it still could
be valuable to think about them. I doubt if there are agreed definitions
for "God" "Prayer" "Beauty" "Truth" "Joy" "Wonder" "The Spritual" "The
Holy Spirit" to brainstorm just a few. To think about love and these
things fully and openmindedly would surely expand our awareness and
understanding, not contract it. I agree that thinking is not the only way
to discover truth. But to think is a gift and to accept and use a gift
honours the giver.

It is a "wonder" to me that we can have conversations at this depth across
the world so quickly and with such freedom. Thank you and all on the list
for enriching my life.

Best wishes,

Nick nickheap@tesco.net

>Again we are caught in trying to define "love". Like a beautiful dove,
>once you confine "love" to it's cage it is not free to soar. Trying to
>define "Love" tends to tie us to our old notions of love. The word is the
>cage. "Mommy loves you" was my earliest memory for me and this keeps me
>in the notion of love as affection or cathexis.

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