Love, like consciousness, and like God, defies definition. All three defy.
Each is a necessary attribute of life: God, consciousness, and love. All of these are felt, and simultaneously experienced, by all of their living, would-be definers, who are, it seems, continually frustrated by their own ineffectual efforts to describe or to define any of them by their own immersion, embodiment in same, and by their subtle, ever-changing forms.
As persons swimming underwater cannot open their mouths to speak, so the poetical, theological, prosaic, artistic, musical, geometrical, and philosophical aspiring and ascriptive describers and definers of love and consciousness must also remain mute, lest they too drown in their own confound!
Yet, everybody and everything that is alive have or has had them all, and still have them all; for, when either is withdrawn from them, love, God, or consciousness, all living has ceased.
Life is conscious of love, of God, and of consciousness, itself. Indeed, all three are self-conscious, conscious of each other, and need each other.
The first felt love is self-love which is expressed as a baby's cry for its mother's love, notice, and nurture.
Mothers reciprocate by responding to that baby's cry for love for the rest of its life. Fathers, too, who hear that cry for love, do inexorably, as they must, respond to its entreaties!
Love begets love; deep calls unto deep. God is love. God is also life. God is also consciousness of both.
Whether plant, which requires seed, soil, sun, rain, and air; or an animal which requires its equivalent share of care; or a fish, insect, or microbe, all living things have self-consciousness and require love, being all of God..
Sunday, September 21, 2014
EVERYBODY AND EVERYTHING NEEDS LOVE
Everybody and Everything Needs Love: Being All of God
Love, like consciousness, and like God, defies definition. All three defy.
Each is a necessary attribute of life: God, consciousness, and love. All of these are felt, and simultaneously experienced, by all of their living, would-be definers, who are, it seems, continually frustrated by their own ineffectual efforts to describe or to define any of them by their own immersion, embodiment in same, and by their subtle, ever-changing forms.
As persons swimming underwater cannot open their mouths to speak, so the poetical, theological, prosaic, artistic, musical, geometrical, and philosophical aspiring and ascriptive describers and definers of love and consciousness must also remain mute, lest they too drown in their own confound!
Yet, everybody and everything that is alive have or has had them all, and still have them all; for, when either is withdrawn from them, love, God, or consciousness, all living has ceased.
Life is conscious of love, of God, and of consciousness, itself. Indeed, all three are self-conscious, conscious of each other, and need each other.
The first felt love is self-love which is expressed as a baby's cry for its mother's love, notice, and nurture.
Mothers reciprocate by responding to that baby's cry for love for the rest of its life. Fathers, too, who hear that cry for love, do inexorably, as they must, respond to its entreaties!
Love begets love; deep calls unto deep. God is love. God is also life. God is also consciousness of both.
Whether plant, which requires seed, soil, sun, rain, and air; or an animal which requires its equivalent share of care; or a fish, insect, or microbe, all living things have self-consciousness and require love, being all of God..
Love, like consciousness, and like God, defies definition. All three defy.
Each is a necessary attribute of life: God, consciousness, and love. All of these are felt, and simultaneously experienced, by all of their living, would-be definers, who are, it seems, continually frustrated by their own ineffectual efforts to describe or to define any of them by their own immersion, embodiment in same, and by their subtle, ever-changing forms.
As persons swimming underwater cannot open their mouths to speak, so the poetical, theological, prosaic, artistic, musical, geometrical, and philosophical aspiring and ascriptive describers and definers of love and consciousness must also remain mute, lest they too drown in their own confound!
Yet, everybody and everything that is alive have or has had them all, and still have them all; for, when either is withdrawn from them, love, God, or consciousness, all living has ceased.
Life is conscious of love, of God, and of consciousness, itself. Indeed, all three are self-conscious, conscious of each other, and need each other.
The first felt love is self-love which is expressed as a baby's cry for its mother's love, notice, and nurture.
Mothers reciprocate by responding to that baby's cry for love for the rest of its life. Fathers, too, who hear that cry for love, do inexorably, as they must, respond to its entreaties!
Love begets love; deep calls unto deep. God is love. God is also life. God is also consciousness of both.
Whether plant, which requires seed, soil, sun, rain, and air; or an animal which requires its equivalent share of care; or a fish, insect, or microbe, all living things have self-consciousness and require love, being all of God..
