What is difference between wisdom and love?

[caycegal]

are you looking for the difference according to Ra or are you after personal opinions?

I am interested in "according to Ra," but since I sometimes don't understand Ra's words, I guess also personal opinions, or at least personal opinions of how to interpret Ra.

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But I don't expect anything. I just get selfish pleasure from other people's pleasure.

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Also, I am self-centered. There is only one self. All is one being, eh? The Law of One? All is the creator?

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A “selfless,” “disinterested” love is a contradiction in terms: it means that one is indifferent to that which one values. Concern for the welfare of those one loves is a rational part of one’s selfish interests.

If a man who is passionately in love with his wife spends a fortune to cure her of a dangerous illness, it would be absurd to claim that he does it as a “sacrifice” for her sake, not his own, and that it makes no difference to him, personally and selfishly, whether she lives or dies.

- Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness

Adonai, I often have the thought that if I believe in Karma (which I do) then it becomes impossible to do something for another person because I am always aware that when I do something loving or nice for another person I am also helping myself. At the same time, I have noticed that I can be self absorbed, lost in my own thoughts, or I can focus on another person and open myself to receiving and appreciating that person's emanations/vibrations/words, etc. When I stay lost or locked up in my own thought box, I am stuck. When I can open up to the people and events around me and receive them into my "heart" I believe and feel that this is a good place to be in. So the whole thing is some kind of paradox for me.

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If wisdom is only the acquired experience of this individual, I can only hope that it is not lost at some point.