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Is love a function of consciousness?
- Thread starter Willamena
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As opposed to what?
Something else.
Such as?
Yes, love is a function of my penne pasta extruder.Things.
...That are else.
There are a multitude of meanings for the word love, and several for the term consciousness...
And I thought it, but I wasn't going to say anything about what @Jedster just posted, but I've got to say, "that is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard"...(it's a movie quote; bonus for the actor/actress and title...)
(maybe not an exact quote...)
And I thought it, but I wasn't going to say anything about what @Jedster just posted, but I've got to say, "that is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard"...(it's a movie quote; bonus for the actor/actress and title...)
(maybe not an exact quote...)
निताइ dasa
Nitai's servant's servant
Yes I think so. Without consciousness there is no love.
Yes I think so
Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
Interesting question!
You may care 2 do a Google search for nature of unconditional love.
All the best!
You may care 2 do a Google search for nature of unconditional love.
All the best!
Timothy Bryce
Active Member
Depends on how you define love really.
To those who are like "as opposed to what?" I could conceive that the "something else" could constitute something on a more overriding spiritual plane, which is something I can relate to; that love could very well be a function of something that transcends the fragility of ordinary human consciousness, in spite of being genuinely reflected and experienced within the realm of human consciousness.
I think love is our natural state as Consciousness is ultimately One.
PeteC-UK
Active Member
Hi Folks...
There is only actually ONE Consciousness - One Mind - and this is spread among the entire Creation that comes FROM that Mind - thus we exist now as UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS with what seems like a unique mind PERSONALITY or identity - but actually we are still yet and always will be an integral part of that GREATER and primal Mind.....
Individually - when the mind realises a sense of UNITY with another (mind) so too it realises this thing we call "love"....Love is the actual BOND that allows us to realise that yes indeed we ARE the same after all...We ARE MIND - and when mind recognises UNITY and joins with another willingly - the energy so exchanged is the emotion of "love" - the ENERGY in MOTION - E motion - that makes two seperate seeming minds JOIN as ONE...
So in a very real sense then - we could say that actually - we ARE LOVE - for love is realisation of unity - and eventually we will realise the ENTIRE MIND that caused it All - the entire experience OF that mind and the WHOLE CREATION will be held as one single unified experience - thus THAT mind - that Primal DIVINE MIND - is the FULL manifestation of Unity, and so is the fullest experience of the emotion of Love.....My Father is LOVE itself - that is His continual existance and that is our individual emotional experience as we approach His fullest realisation..
There is only actually ONE Consciousness - One Mind - and this is spread among the entire Creation that comes FROM that Mind - thus we exist now as UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS with what seems like a unique mind PERSONALITY or identity - but actually we are still yet and always will be an integral part of that GREATER and primal Mind.....
Individually - when the mind realises a sense of UNITY with another (mind) so too it realises this thing we call "love"....Love is the actual BOND that allows us to realise that yes indeed we ARE the same after all...We ARE MIND - and when mind recognises UNITY and joins with another willingly - the energy so exchanged is the emotion of "love" - the ENERGY in MOTION - E motion - that makes two seperate seeming minds JOIN as ONE...
So in a very real sense then - we could say that actually - we ARE LOVE - for love is realisation of unity - and eventually we will realise the ENTIRE MIND that caused it All - the entire experience OF that mind and the WHOLE CREATION will be held as one single unified experience - thus THAT mind - that Primal DIVINE MIND - is the FULL manifestation of Unity, and so is the fullest experience of the emotion of Love.....My Father is LOVE itself - that is His continual existance and that is our individual emotional experience as we approach His fullest realisation..
In humans it appears to be so, but love is conceptual and so is not limited to consciousness (in my opinion). I can love people whom I do not know. In a way I am loved by people who are now dead and love people who don't yet exist.
What movie is that from?
The original is from the 1970 tear-jerker "Love Story" starring Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw, where it occurs in different forms twice, First spoken by MacGraw midway through the film, and as the movie's last line, spoken by O'Neal.
O'Neal later costarred with Barbra Streisand in the 1972 screwball comedy, "What's Up, Doc?" At the end of the film, Streisand's character coos that "Love means never having to say you're sorry" while batting her eyelashes, and O'Neal's character responds, deadpan, "That's the dumbest thing I ever heard." The two begin arguing as the film ends.
No I think love is a function of being.
PeteC-UK
Active Member
Hi Folks...
Idav; ..............yes - but surely - "Being" itself, requires CONSCIOUSNESS - requires MIND to comprehend and experience that very state of "being" - doesnt it..?..
Therefore Love is a function of Consciousness which defines and experiences the Love that it is now and always was
Idav; ..............yes - but surely - "Being" itself, requires CONSCIOUSNESS - requires MIND to comprehend and experience that very state of "being" - doesnt it..?..
Therefore Love is a function of Consciousness which defines and experiences the Love that it is now and always was