08-07-2014, 11:56 AM
(08-02-2014, 09:41 AM)caycegal Wrote: Please explain as if I were an 8 year old.
Thanks for your help.
By the way, I have already done of search of LOO material and did not find an answer sufficiently simple for me to understand.
Just my personal subjective distillations, caycegal --
Love= When you see an other individual in deep pain, or in the grip of some extraordinary emotion or action due to some reason, love is then the understanding to know and realize that if you were in the very same position of events and circumstances through the trail of time to the present moment, very much likely, you too would look as pitiable and helpless (or may be even disgusting) as the person you are beholding in that peculiar state to be in.
In other words, love is the self-realization that
Quote:You are every thing, every being, every emotion, every event, every situation. (extracted from the LOO, 1.7)
Wisdom= The sober understanding that just as you have the option and the freedom to walk away from the pain or peculiar emotion of another individual without feeling or appreciating even an iota of the inner turmoil or angst of that person, so too can the rest of the folks around do to you when you are in a position of great distress and utter helplessness.
In other words, wisdom is the realization that one has to contemplate and probably accept, despite inner revolt in the face of the thought that reeks of apparent injustice, that the universe provides entities with the option to
Quote:...toss back the head in grim laughter, preferring the darkness. (extracted from the LOO, 80.15)