What Love Really Is (or What Is Wrong with JW-type Love)

by MerryMagdalene 13 Replies latest jw friends

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  frankiespeakin

  MM,

  That's some deep psychogy:

  Love springs from awareness. It is only inasmuch as you see someone as he or she really is here and now, and not as they are in your memory or your desire or in your imagination or projection, that you can truly love them. Otherwise, it is not the person that you love but the idea that you have formed of this person

  It seems true,, we should not fall in love with memory but the person there and now. That sounds transpersonal,, and I think it can be done say if a couple merged with the Self into oneness together.
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  zen nudist

  Zen, I really do understand what you are saying; however, I feel you would enjoy the book too.

  Father DiMello's ONE MINUTE WISDOM was one of the first books I read Post JW in 1990...give or take a few years.

  Great stuff.
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  frenchbabyface

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  frankiespeakin

  here's one quote and site for more:

  http://www.spiritwalk.org/demello.htm#biography

  Intoxication (Celebration)

  "What would spirituality give me?"
  said an alcoholic to the Master.
  
  "Non-alcoholic intoxication," was the answer.