Five fingers, five toes normally align each side of human beings.
Yet, ignoring this basic clue, --why not 4 or 6?--we acknowledge only four states of matter, or of being, not 5!
Four states of being have now replaced the three old states of matter or being that we grew up on, as children, under different coordinates in space and time.
The newest state is plasma. It is that molten-solid, essentially, either hot or cold, lava-like or ice floes.
The former, familiar classifications were : gas, liquid and solid. These concepts were taught in grade school science, and were affirmed by empirical observations in nature.
But I now wonder whether "love" is not also another state of being? Is not love also affirmed in nature?
I say that love is another state of matter, one that is profoundly felt; one that subliminally influences all life, but that which is unseen like music; and one that is as natural as washing your face, as combing your hair, as brushing teeth, or as feeding yourself and your babies.
Love is simply divine. Love joins the natural state to the spiritual state in an ineffable, indispensable bridge, that is joyfully ridden over so easily, repeatedly, daily by us all who love.
But, love's actual physical status is not cognate in physics, chemistry, biology, as each is now conceived.
"The greatest of these is love." Says the Bible. "God is love."
Many of us profess our love for one another or for this or that, routinely.
Love is. Therefore love is matter. Moreover, love really does matter marvelously, figuring prominently in our own mental, spiritual, physical health, and in relation to all others'.
I say that love is the fifth state of being or matter along with plasma, solid, liquid, gas. Thus, no longer confining "love," merely in the spiritual or mental states, but incorporating love into the material and corporeal states of being, we now have a new robust lineup:
Gas, liquid, solid, plasma, love, 5!
That "one for the thumb" mantra of the former Super Bowl champions, Pittsburgh Steelers, was "love." That mantra is as apt here with respect to our new champion, love.
Truly, the greatest of these is love.
Thursday, December 17, 2015
LOVE IS THE GREATEST
LOVE IS THE GREATEST
Five fingers, five toes normally align each side of human beings.
Yet, ignoring this basic clue, --why not 4 or 6?--we acknowledge only four states of matter, or of being, not 5!
Four states of being have now replaced the three old states of matter or being that we grew up on, as children, under different coordinates in space and time.
The newest state is plasma. It is that molten-solid, essentially, either hot or cold, lava-like or ice floes.
The former, familiar classifications were : gas, liquid and solid. These concepts were taught in grade school science, and were affirmed by empirical observations in nature.
But I now wonder whether "love" is not also another state of being? Is not love also affirmed in nature?
I say that love is another state of matter, one that is profoundly felt; one that subliminally influences all life, but that which is unseen like music; and one that is as natural as washing your face, as combing your hair, as brushing teeth, or as feeding yourself and your babies.
Love is simply divine. Love joins the natural state to the spiritual state in an ineffable, indispensable bridge, that is joyfully ridden over so easily, repeatedly, daily by us all who love.
But, love's actual physical status is not cognate in physics, chemistry, biology, as each is now conceived.
"The greatest of these is love." Says the Bible. "God is love."
Many of us profess our love for one another or for this or that, routinely.
Love is. Therefore love is matter. Moreover, love really does matter marvelously, figuring prominently in our own mental, spiritual, physical health, and in relation to all others'.
I say that love is the fifth state of being or matter along with plasma, solid, liquid, gas. Thus, no longer confining "love," merely in the spiritual or mental states, but incorporating love into the material and corporeal states of being, we now have a new robust lineup:
Gas, liquid, solid, plasma, love, 5!
That "one for the thumb" mantra of the former Super Bowl champions, Pittsburgh Steelers, was "love." That mantra is as apt here with respect to our new champion, love.
Truly, the greatest of these is love.
Five fingers, five toes normally align each side of human beings.
Yet, ignoring this basic clue, --why not 4 or 6?--we acknowledge only four states of matter, or of being, not 5!
Four states of being have now replaced the three old states of matter or being that we grew up on, as children, under different coordinates in space and time.
The newest state is plasma. It is that molten-solid, essentially, either hot or cold, lava-like or ice floes.
The former, familiar classifications were : gas, liquid and solid. These concepts were taught in grade school science, and were affirmed by empirical observations in nature.
But I now wonder whether "love" is not also another state of being? Is not love also affirmed in nature?
I say that love is another state of matter, one that is profoundly felt; one that subliminally influences all life, but that which is unseen like music; and one that is as natural as washing your face, as combing your hair, as brushing teeth, or as feeding yourself and your babies.
Love is simply divine. Love joins the natural state to the spiritual state in an ineffable, indispensable bridge, that is joyfully ridden over so easily, repeatedly, daily by us all who love.
But, love's actual physical status is not cognate in physics, chemistry, biology, as each is now conceived.
"The greatest of these is love." Says the Bible. "God is love."
Many of us profess our love for one another or for this or that, routinely.
Love is. Therefore love is matter. Moreover, love really does matter marvelously, figuring prominently in our own mental, spiritual, physical health, and in relation to all others'.
I say that love is the fifth state of being or matter along with plasma, solid, liquid, gas. Thus, no longer confining "love," merely in the spiritual or mental states, but incorporating love into the material and corporeal states of being, we now have a new robust lineup:
Gas, liquid, solid, plasma, love, 5!
That "one for the thumb" mantra of the former Super Bowl champions, Pittsburgh Steelers, was "love." That mantra is as apt here with respect to our new champion, love.
Truly, the greatest of these is love.