Motto: \u201cSeems that the only aim of nature is throwing all beings one in each other\u2019s arms,
\n
\n and make them share, in virtue of love transfiguration between two infinite noughts,
\nthe frantic intoxication of the divine embracement.\u201d<\/p>\n
We are living hasty lives. We are caring \u201csynthesis\u201d of experiences inside of us. We are caring bypassed love stories, victories and defeats. But when we remember love, everything is covered with a living, special and mysterious light.
\nYou may not remember what you have exactly done three years ago, on January 7, but you definitely do remember the day you have met her or the day he said he wanted you to be together\u2026 and all sorts of details start passing through your mind, that used to touch you deep at the moment and now cast a beam on your face\u2026<\/p>\n
If you did experience deep love, you have doubtlessly felt handsome and forceful; you have trusted a mission that fate has exclusively spared for you. After a while, when love has passed through the forest of your wishes and it removed all remains of selfishness, you did find yourself stronger, although there apparently was no shoulder to lie on. Therefore your life became more intense, conscious and wider\u2026
\nLove is constructive and creative, it unifies and uplifts. It is a rejuvenating principle, a substance that converts all spleen, scepticism or loneliness. The masterpieces, poems, inspiring music, they all contain in their unseen texture: love. Just as we do all of us, in fact.<\/p>\n
Love is real; it is as real as us. It is no barren intellectual concept, it is mysterious magic of our whole being. As long as the boldness of a leave of grass is no accident, the fact that somewhere it can be a person that loves you deserves all the more attention. For, we are living on earth particularly in order to fully express love towards whoever may deserve this and mostly towards God.
\nFew people know that evolution by means of love is the fastest way; it always is the only standard to measure everything. Plenary love, shared together in endless hues and forms is the very task of our life when we deserve this.<\/p>\n
Love is the simplest way to live one\u2019s life, for it is the best and the most natural. You hardly need to do more. Everyone feels like loving, before really loving someone or something. This pure and overwhelming love will get an answer sooner or later.
\nLove is what makes people look for their match and fulfil their dreams. It engenders the mysterious longing for self knowledge.
\nIf you feel no more love, it means you have never felt it for real, or you cannot look inside of you, where love still exists. Love does know that whatever exists inside the mind is subject to changing and can be forgotten or lost, whereas the pure overwhelming love always makes you win.<\/p>\n
Love simply exists\u2026 It\u2019s our mere conviction that we feel it in the one we love, during our moments of joy; it does not need all these. Love never takes possession nor does it want to be possessed. Love does not ask, above of all, it gives. It is divine simplicity in action and feeling.
\nLove is the mirror on earth of this divine emotion, which makes it boundless. Would it know time, love would be an endless moment. Would it know space, its place would be inside of us, for we are the quintessence of all we love.
\nIf love exists it is all over. And if love exists now, it may exist forever, hereafter.<\/p>\n
Real love always is the opposite of selfishness and it expresses in strong, free longing of the one who loves to spread his entire affection over the subject of his love, whoever that might be: a human being of opposite sex that attracts us, a group, a concept, value or activity. The fact that love manifestations can be so enormously various from one man to another, and they often differ from one man to another is due to the hues this universal feeling can borrow for every human being, which is unique by itself. The emergence and persisting of this deeply unifying feeling, euphoric, divine and blissful \u2013 also its enhancement, when it manifests from one being to another, in its individual area, is closely connected to the shaping crystallisation of the personality.<\/p>\n
Love between two human beings of opposite sex aims, by means of worship and deep amorous transfiguration, to complementary fusion, ineffably unifying at all levels (including the physical-sexual plan) with a certain human being (plenary healthy, morally and intellectually powerful). Such person will appear to the one deeply in love marvellously individualised, as the very unique and unrepeatable source of huge, genuine happiness for the one who loves him\/her. The nature and the incredible role assessed to love, if highly and freely expressed in people\u2019s lives have been given various interpretations along time. One of the most ancient interpretations for love is the cosmo-mythological one, i.e. the expression of endless euphoric force, of transfiguration, sublime, divine, cosmic, magnificent, endlessly creative and source of all beauties.<\/p>\n
For instance the rejuvenating Eros in the Orphism, the organising divine principle of the Universe at Empedocles, the heroic enthusiasm of G. Bruno, the unifying principle of the heaven (+) and earth (+), of the finite and infinite at the German romantics. Also, the energising, complementary polarity of the Sun ((+), the emitting masculine aspect) and the subtle force of the Moon ((-), the receptive, feminine aspect), which is the principle to direct the matrix power of manifestation and evolution in Yoga.
\nAs differed in several love kinds and considered the most powerful transfiguration, the most spiritual (the purest, the most divine, uplifting) and the highest one, many philosophers have assigned cognitive properties to love. To mention some of these: knowing the ideal of beauty itself, the ecstatic identity between love and knowledge at Plato, attaining the ecstatic summits of the intelligible world and blissful love, at M. Ficino; the fullest inner freedom, stem in the rational and intuitive knowledge, \u201camor dei intellectualis\u201d, at Spinoza; the self-penetration\u00a0 (due to ineffable inner resonance to the ideal containing), or the self-dissolution, due to the complete fusion and perfect identification of the thing, or human being (where the knowledge to result is one and only), known as if in erotic love making, at F. Schegel.<\/p>\n
Love was given lots of meanings and human and spiritual values in modern philosophy, which disclosed its role as an agglutinating agent of the deep human solidarity, as the supporter of the ideas community of the humankind, as the sublime, divine essence of transfiguration of the man. The representatives of the religious philosophy, particularly the Christian philosophers (e.g. the Neo-Platonism, the Thomism, the Neo-Thomism, the personalism, the religious existentialism), clearly highlighted some aspects of love anthropology (charity – agape), and construed them in a divine, uplifting transcendental way as God\u2019s love, subsequently identified with the universal love (the unitary ground of the three hypostasis of God).<\/p>\n
In this respect a special position among theologians belongs to Theilhard de Chardin, who erected an ethical conception based on fellow love, on a unifying collectivism at an affective and intellectual level. There are many pessimistic and irrational points of love, proper to many philosophical interpretations in the XIXth\u00a0 and\u00a0 XXth\u00a0 centuries.\u00a0 Schopenhauer, for instance considers \u201cLove is but a trap to the individual for him to perpetuate the species\u201d, also Nietzsche, M. Scheler, K. Jaspers, Sartre, Gabriel Marcel.<\/p>\n
As they pointed out the love influence upon psyche and mind, some philosophers did underscore the deep power of transformation of this feeling and highlighted its decisive role in self-knowledge, in attaining happiness, in the human shape and mould along time.
\nThe yogis always appraised love as utterly important and often depicted it as a sui-generis criterion to asses the level of human elevation in man\u2019s natural behaviour. It is the extent to fathom how in the most inner and individual part of the microcosmic being,\u00a0 the one in love can therefore become a macrocosmic and divinely unified expanded up to the infinite.<\/p>\n
Considered from a psychic point of view, we may say love is the fruit of a complex process of inner \u201ccrystallisation\u201d. Stendhal rendered this in his famous work\u00a0 \u201cAbout love\u201d and he analysed there a process of conspicuous emotions, triggered by ineffable, empathic communion and identification with someone belonging to the opposite sex, who makes us complete and complies with multiple levels of our being, which makes us feel much more unified and consonant.<\/p>\n
Stendhal opposes this intense, lasting and true love, full of transfiguration to brisk love affairs, frantic and thunder like (coup de foudre), which by ephemeral, incomplete attraction that lacks some depth and complexity are often liable to vanish away as quickly as they have appeared (for, whether one of the two lovers or even both may lack emotional support and transfiguration, which enables deep love making at multiple levels, as in a loving, profound couple that stays together).<\/p>\n
At a moral approach, the yogis would figure love as an euphoric feeling, quite sublime and engendering deep transfiguration unlike selfishness. Therefore, true love is a quite simple way to overcome or transcend selfishness. If we deeply understand this by direct, spontaneous and sublime experience of true love, we may very easily understand the divine fundamental saying of Jesus, which paradoxically few Christians only seem to consider nowadays: \u201cLove your fellow man as you love yourself\u201d. The Russian writer Tolstoi would marvellously say:\u00a0 \u201cThe real love is always based on giving in one\u2019s own good\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u00a0The great saints see love as the source of the supreme, divine virtue, which is compassion. The philosophical problem is to the yogis whether love can stand for a genuine way of knowledge or not. From this point of view, they do consider love a quick way to knowledge (the philosopher Spinoza said: \u201cThe intellectual love of God emerges from the third way of knowledge\u201d) and they decline the aberrant idea that belongs to Decartes claiming that love is but mind blinding: \u201cLove is a passion that may be highly aroused inside of us, without our knowing whether the object or the human being to stir it is good or not\u201d.<\/p>\n
In fact, love is but a way that the human being is given in order to get closer to God, but also a swift way to get aware of the divine reality. This aspect is brilliantly rendered in Kahlil Gibran\u2019s work, \u201cThe Prophet\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen love beckons to you, follow him,
\nThough his ways are hard and steep.
\nAnd when his wings enfold you yield to him,
\nThough the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
\nAnd when he speaks to you believe in him,
\nThough his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.
\nFor even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
\nEven as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
\nSo shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.
\nLike sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
\nHe threshes you to make you naked.
\nHe sifts you to free you from your husks.
\nHe grinds you to whiteness.
\nHe kneads you until you are pliant;
\nAnd then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God’s sacred feast.
\nAll these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life’s heart.
\nBut if in your fear you would seek only love’s peace and love’s pleasure,
\nThen it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love’s threshing-floor,
\nInto the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
\nLove gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
\nLove possesses not nor would it be possessed;
\nFor love is sufficient unto love.
\nWhen you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.”
\nAnd think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
\nLove has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
\nBut if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
\nTo melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
\nTo know the pain of too much tenderness.
\nTo be wounded by your own understanding of love;
\nAnd to bleed willingly and joyfully.
\nTo wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
\nTo rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s ecstasy;
\nTo return home at eventide with gratitude;
\nAnd then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Bible also contains countless inspiring lines referring to love as a straight way to know God. To mention one of such excerpts:<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I speak with the tongues of men or angels, but\u00a0 have not love I become a sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to\u00a0 be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
\nLove suffereth long, and is king; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up; doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil; (n. therefore it never leans on the evil realms), rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth; beareth\u00a0 all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.and there it embraces and transfigures everything); it trusts all that is good, divine and elevated, it strives for and trusts all that is good and beneficial (n. and thereby all that it perseveringly covets at will come true), it humbly suffers everything.
\nLove never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away.
\nFor we know in part, and we prophesy in part; but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away (n. for we will be one with God).
\nWhen I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away (n. got detached) childish (n. infantile) things.
\nFor now we see in a mirror, darkly (n. due to ignorance);; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then (n. when we are one with God) shall I know fully even as also I was fully known(n. by God).. But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.\u201d (Paul \u2013 \u201cCorinthians\u201d, 13).<\/p>\n
As the basic aspect of human existence, love has been given numerous earthy and spiritual values and the word itself has met lots of definitions and interpretations along ages, according to the existing philosophical currents and the spiritual degree of those to issue such perspectives.<\/p>\n
The countless sayings about love, inspired quotations that all times literature teams with stand for evidence that love has always been the essence of humans\u2019 spiritual life, for it is the very source of it, in fact, any artistic expression is inspired of love.<\/p>\n
Here are some excerpts about love:<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, love, full of transfiguration! \u2013 The beautiful arts are thy children; thou were the first to guide on earth the holly poetry, the sole food for noble souls, who send from their solitude their divine chant to the most remote generations, urging them to glorious deeds by words and thoughts inspired from above. Thou fill again our souls with the only virtue useful to the mortals, thou are the Charity to cast sometimes a beam on the miserable doomed and you ceaselessly restore the divine engendering power of the beings, out of which all is but chaos and death. If thou desert us, Love, the earth would become barren, animals would hate each other, the sun would be but injuring fire, and the world sorrow, fright and universal obliteration\u201d. (Ugo Foscolo).<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy do we always love with passion? \u2013 for this makes us really happy; why should we confess it sincerely? \u2013 for this makes the other happy; why should we try to prove this against all sacrifice? \u2013 to make us believe that it\u2019s the only way for humans to succeed one day in giving up their meanest sin: the coarse selfishness\u201d.\u00a0 (Panait Istrati)<\/p>\n
\u201cEverlasting love is possible one condition: that it may be strong enough and released from casual, memory, hue and detail, from any specific detail that might have pre-determined it, so that it may effortless subscribe to the purest pattern of transfiguration love\u201d (Alexandru Ivasciuc).<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m in love. There is a heavenly rainbow \/ above the world of my heart\u201d. (Nicolae Labis).<\/p>\n
\u201cThe sublime, true love is a feeling of transfiguration, divine and complex, essentially featuring kindness. There must be a feeling of devotion in love, a wish of protection, an urge to well doing and providing pleasure and happiness \u2013 this is to completely lack selfishness\u201d. (W. Somerset Maugham)<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you feel high love and transfiguration for the beloved soul, there is no better thing than giving, giving all the way: one\u2019s life, one\u2019s thoughts, and one\u2019s body, giving everything, feeling that you always offer and being ready to give ever more\u201d (Guy de Maupassant).<\/p>\n
\u201cLove\u2026 one passion, one divine flame carrying with it, no matter if lasting or not \u2013 just like our own human condition \u2013 happiness and life alike\u201d. (G. Meredith)<\/p>\n
\u201cThe lover, when filled with love, loves and transfigures the flaw of the one he loves.\u201d (Moli\u00e8re)<\/p>\n
\u201cSuch a poor and miserable being that must be if cannot say: \u201cI\u2019m drunk, most of the time with the strong wine of love\u201d, \/ How can he feel the nature marvel at dawn \/ and the holly spell of moonlight, at night?\u201d Omar Khayyam).<\/p>\n
Love between two human beings of opposite sex is not just sexual intercourse, which is but an element (necessary, though vulgar) of this wide feeling. Although for most of the people, the concept of love confines to this (lovemaking) aspect, true love, full of transfiguration, as considered of all wise men, is a process of gradual submergence, crystallisation and persuasion at the level of the ineffable, affective communion and empathic identification with a specific human being of opposite sex. We may feel at first, beyond affection towards that being, some sort of unreasonable chemistry, but we gradually discover that he or she is complementary at all our levels and also makes us feel much more affectionate and consonant.\u00a0 Therefore, by means of deep transfiguration and worship, we may reach a fulfilling, unifying fusion to the beloved one at all levels (affectionate, mental, spiritual and, obviously, physical-sexual), this fusion being the source of high, genuine and lasting happiness. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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