Thursday, January 5, 2017

Love and Hate

Response to a comment in an Alan Watts talk that: "hate is the opposite of love."

I tend to think this statement represents a misunderstanding of love. To me, love is wanting to be in the same "space" with someone (or something) else. Love is the universal law of attraction. Love has no real opposite, except possibly apathy or indifference. Love is a force of attraction. There is no opposite to gravity, there is no opposite to light. Darkness is the absence of light, but darkness does not negate light. Hate is a fearful perversion of love, a twisted mutant emotion that wants to be in the same "space" as someone else, but is fearful and uncertain. This hate manifests itself as wanting to destroy the thing it wants to be close to, but it never succeeds. Hate is never satisfied and is self destroying. Love is always satisfied and is self perpetuating, and self generating, and ever renewing force of growth in the Universe.



copyright (c) 2017
William Schaeffer

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