[Vision2020] Love

[Joe Campbell]

Some love is hot! And the love I have for my son is not a "warm feeling." 

I don't think love is a feeling or emotion at all, though it's all bound up with a ton of emotions. But to quote Boston, it's MORE than a feeling. 

I had a student who thought that love WAS the meaning of life, which I understood as saying that our purpose was found in establishing relationships with others. 

"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."



On Jan 2, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Jeff Harkins <jeffh at moscow.com> wrote:

>  The comments on the "love" value have been interesting and 
> thought-provoking.
> 
> Many of you seem disappointed that the values lack "precision" and/or 
> "perfection" in the definitions - or perhaps fail to match your 
> "feelings" about love (or any of the other values).
> 
> Couple of thoughts -
> 
> I too have felt the definitions have not been as robust as I would like, 
> but upon reflection, I think the definitions are intended to encourage 
> conversation about the values and to gain perspectives about how our 
> beliefs might legitimately differ from others.
> 
> As well, it seems to me that the whole point of thinking about these 
> "values" is to identify our own feelings about who we are and to be able 
> to appreciate how we might alter our own self image.  Case in point, if 
> you viewed the TV spot for love (entitled Everlasting Love), the message 
> communicates (at least to me) a depth of love that transcends age, 
> gender, experience, wisdom, status - e.g., the "love between father and 
> daughter" -  For me, I have a very different feeling about love and my 
> relationship with my soul mate.
> 
> The quotations and lyrics you all have cited about love have been 
> terrific - very diverse.
> 
> Here is one that has always been "interesting" to me:
> 
> "It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, strength, comeliness of shape or 
> amplest merit, that woman's love can win, or long inherit; but what it 
> is, hard is to say, harder to hit" [John Milton - Samson Agonistes]
> 
> That said,
> 
> Isn't love a feeling?
> Isn't love warm?
> Isn't love personal?
> Isn't love a "bonding"?
> 
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