Love is Stronger than Fear
“This wealth of life love acquires in the exchange of every thought, every variety of inner experience, for it seeks out difference and devises unifications ad infinitum; it turns to the whole manifold of nature in order to drink love out of every life. What in the first instance is most the individual’s own is united into the whole in the lovers’ touch and contact; consciousness of a separate self disappears, and all distinction between the lovers is annulled.”
Hegel, On Love (1797/8?)
The true aim in life is not to be in relation with the divine; but to unveil our own eternality as the means of its Love.
Desire begins when we seek, listen, so as to feel this eternality of us, and through us and know of this Love.
We understand then why we see the things themselves, in their places, where they are, according to their being which is indeed more than their being perceived – and why at the same time we are separated from them by all the thickness of the look and of the body; it is that this distance is not the contrary of this proximity, it is deeply consonant with it, it is synonymous with it. It is that the thickness of flesh between the seer and the thing is constitutive for the thing of its visibility as for the seer of his corporeity; it is not an obstacle between them, it is their means of communication.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible (1968)
To inhale, or unveil; reconciling all that is separate in love and out of love and all of this devotion
is an intimacy of becoming
moving beyond the relational
this dialectic
of choosing existence as Love.
