ASIN: B00WBY0FHG
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 47
Reflected form, projected love: images of women.If to love someone involves regarding that person’s wellbeing as of equal importance to one’s own, then is that sufficient to define the nature of love? When people distinguish between, say, romantic, parental, and platonic love, are they referring to different types of love, or is it only the associated emotions that vary? Is love an emotion, or is it more than that? Why are the religious advised to love everyone, including their enemies? Should love be unconditional, or does conditional love still count? And what if one values another’s wellbeing more highly than one’s own? – Is adoration superior to love?True love is not an emotion. It is a state of being. To know thyself – to truly love thyself (and thy neighbour as thyself) – involves destroying one’s ego and perceiving the unity of all existence. There is no higher state. Adoration ...
