--- Peter wrote: > > "when we love God we think he is an object. > He is the subject. ..."
About 20 years ago, after doing a rigorous physical purification, I started having the loud and persistent thought, "I love you." I've been perplexed ever since as to who's loving whom. Is it my small self loving the large Self? The large Self loving the small self? Is my Patrick ego loving God, or vice versa? This Papajji observation hints at an answer: It's just love doing what love does -- loving. But the love desires an object, so it creates one called "you." And if there's a "you," there needs be an "I." Hence I get "I love you." There's a school of thought that love is binding, that it reconciles opposites and brings disparate elements together, but perhaps love also breaks the universe into pieces so that one part can love another. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
