One is not like the other
“Did you know the Greeks have 4 different words for Love? That’s not fair! I think I deserve to have a way to say I really love ice cream and I really love my Nanny (grandma) without bringing my Nanny into a world of lactose intolerance and a madman’s craving for chocolatey deliciousness.
Eros is the passionate love, with sensual desire and longing: where erotic comes from. Philia is friendship, a dispassionate virtuous love. Storage [sic] is natural affection, like that felt by parents for children, or little ones for Nanny. Agape THIS ONE IS MY FAVORITE is an all-inclusive unconditional love. This is the one widely used in religious teachings. To have agape is to see all people doing the best they can with the light they’ve got. Agape is not spoken about. It’s a space you rest in, a state of being that is pure uninhibited love. Someone in this state is not looking for a return on the investment. In fact they don’t see it as an investment at all. This is remarkable compassion.”
I would like to add Thelema to that awesome, all encompassing list. As I understand it, Thelema is love in the sense of desire for states of being, like being occupied or focused.
Just another way to show that English is a very limited language especially in tense and context.
Jason, will you marry me?
Via Jason Mraz’s online journal
Wikipedia links added by moi.
