09-02-2012, 11:44 PM
To me, love is appreciation.
But what is appreciation?
The dictionary defines appreciation as:
1) to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
2) to value or regard highly; place a high estimate on: to appreciate good wine.
3) to be fully conscious of; be aware of; detect: to appreciate the dangers of a situation.
4) to raise in value.
I would also consider "acceptance" to a be a large component of love or appreciation. If you appreciate someone, something, or some aspect, you also accept it. So appreciation could almost be described as acceptance, when it has been imbued with understanding or wisdom of the value of what you are accepting. So in my mind, acceptance is like "love" and "appreciation" is like "love/light" or "light/love".
The emotion we call "love" is our translation, as best we can, of the vibration/frequency/emanations of unity or relatively resistance-free consciousness.
So to summarize, I don't see a huge difference between love, acceptance, or appreciation. These words come close to approximating the connection the word implies -- all connections being predicated on the foundation of unity or oneness. Because unity contains all, it cannot abhor any, as Ra would say.
But what is appreciation?
The dictionary defines appreciation as:
1) to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
2) to value or regard highly; place a high estimate on: to appreciate good wine.
3) to be fully conscious of; be aware of; detect: to appreciate the dangers of a situation.
4) to raise in value.
I would also consider "acceptance" to a be a large component of love or appreciation. If you appreciate someone, something, or some aspect, you also accept it. So appreciation could almost be described as acceptance, when it has been imbued with understanding or wisdom of the value of what you are accepting. So in my mind, acceptance is like "love" and "appreciation" is like "love/light" or "light/love".
The emotion we call "love" is our translation, as best we can, of the vibration/frequency/emanations of unity or relatively resistance-free consciousness.
So to summarize, I don't see a huge difference between love, acceptance, or appreciation. These words come close to approximating the connection the word implies -- all connections being predicated on the foundation of unity or oneness. Because unity contains all, it cannot abhor any, as Ra would say.
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