Thoughts about Love

[sonshi]

In esoteric interpretation of Greek myths, the food of the gods is human love. Without it, gods fade away and their power to help us is diminished.

'Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.' Love works on the will as well as powers of perception. When we really love someone, we are willing to do anything for them ... I'm not acting in a cold, unethusiastic or inauthentic way. I am not doing my duty while part of me resents it. I am acting out of love and devotion.

Source: Secret History of the World by Mark Booth

A lot of our modern defiitions have melded lust and love together. I have one definition for the word love: "Someone or Something that you would kill or die for." God and Lust (and sex) have nothing to do with love. The act of mother cat putting herself between a wild dog and her kittens is love. Humans do not have a monopoly on love. We do have a monopoly on manipulating language to fool the stupid...

Edward Louis Bernays (November 22, 1891 – March 9, 1995), was an Austrian-American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, referred to in his obituary as "the father of public relations".[1] He combined the ideas of Gustave Le Bon and Wilfred Trotter on crowd psychology with the psychoanalytical ideas of his uncle, Sigmund Freud.

He felt this manipulation was necessary in society, which he regarded as irrational and dangerous as a result of the 'herd instinct' that Trotter had described.[citation needed] Adam Curtis's award-winning 2002 documentary for the BBC, The Century of the Self, pinpoints Bernays as the originator of modern public relations, and Bernays was named one of the 100 most influential Americans of the 20th century by Life magazine.[2]

LINK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays

They found Bernays book on Joseph Goebbels desk filled with notes and bookmarks...

James Baldwin wrote "The Fire Next Time". It's an interesting book about relationships and love. excerpt:"...Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth..."