Re: love [on knowing]

sofia,

my offering wasnt meant to address any particular knowing ... just what I've learned about knowing in general. I feel very much the same way you do about polarization ... altho I do believe this plane is "all about duality and polarization" ... I believe that it is that duality which presents us with the challenge of finding a balance -- or -- what you refer to as the paradox in the polarity, something I have become quite familiar with myself over the past several years.

It seems that love itself fits within the paradox because we can love all equally and yet as when we experience love with our senses it seems that that cannot be possible. What kind of love is it with which we can love our mother, an earthworm, a rock, chocolate, and looking good in a bikini equally? and if we find ourselves using other words to express this love, does that mean that love itself is many things?

What I found so perplexing as I first thought about your post is -- how DOES one define/experience love? the love which includes all other kinds of love? the closest I can come to defining it is as the connection we have with one another and all things which is both objective/subjective, giving/receiving, and so on with the paradoxes... It is, imo, a difficult task. But yet, I think most people recognize love and not love, assuming, of course, that one accepts that there can be something that is not love.

I found ample food for thought within your examples and I think they elicited many good responses because these are the kinds of issues we deal with day and out. If love is the way and the answer, a discussion regarding how one relates love to one's life in all of its facets makes this discussion is an interesting one.