Love or Die: A Politics of Love: Eros and Holiness: Part Eleven

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The Path of Love

One cannot be told that life is worth while —one must experience the love of living first hand. Yet so few people have an unmediated sense of the adequacy, dignity and worth of their lives. The sense that is so essential to making our lives a triumph. So many of us today are second hand consumers of second hand joy — never touching love or life directly. And when love fails their truly is nothing left to live for. For love — not the narrow romantic expressions of it — but love as it’s core is life itself.

We have so much. Most of us have a roof over our heads, a thousand foods to choose from a day, all sorts of dress options for every season, a number of friends and of course, infinite varieties of entertainment available. Many of us have fulfilled the goals and objectives we have sought to achieve. Some even have realized far more than they thought possible. And yet it remains— the gnawing sense of emptiness that will not go away. We can ignore it — we can find a thousand ways to kill time hoping to fill or kill the emptiness. And yet we remain — at our core — unful-filled. What do you do when everything you always wanted isn’t enough?
What do you do when you are surrounded by people and yet at the end of the day you still feel almost unbearably lonely?

It comes then as no surprise that the leading cause of death — by far — is heart disease. Heart in Hebrew — the language of the mystics — is Lev. Lev is the Hebrew source for our English word- Love. Love is under attack- it is experiencing often fatal dis-ease. Heart Failure. The failures of love.

We are confronted, personally and globally with a stark choice — Love or Die! It is that simple. Love is no longer a luxury — it is an absolute necessity for the survival of the individual and the planet. In the last half a century modern psychology has documented an age old truth. A fully nourished baby who is not held in loving arms will die. So too our world, personal and global — even with all the resources, intelligence and technology at our disposal- will die without being held in love. We must embrace a personal path with heart and a global politics of love.

Eros.

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