Wednesday, January 16, 2013

a definition of love

A definition of love

What is love?

If, as the Apostle Paul suggests, "the greatest of these is love" -- which some Bibles remove for "charity" in the "Hymn to Love?" What is it?

Definition by negation is evasion. "Not" goes on indefinitely. "Is" is precise and specific.

So, what is love?

... A power or force of nature, of God, that animates and resonates within and across the cosmos and within and across everything within it.

That is what LOVE is!

Its compeer and consort is life itself.

Too often it is mistakenly conflated with righteousness. That narrows its sweep artificially. Wickedness also loves. The sun shines on the just and the unjust and it rains on good and evil. All die: the good and the bad, the wise and the foolish, the brave and the cowardly; the fair and the foul!

Where life is, love is. So love equals life times God squared. This equation mimics Einstein's E=MC^2, which usually translates: energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.

Why God? God is light before light and life before life. Cosmologically God is all in all, the ever in ever, the preexistent existent. The source of light, life and love.

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