True, or not true, for you?
Pls read below:
"What keeps us alive, what allows us to endure?
I think it is the hope of loving, or being loved.
I heard a fable once about the sun going on a journey to find its source, and how the moon wept
without her lovers warm gaze.
We weep when light does not reach our hearts. We wither like fields if someone close does not rain their kindness upon us."
{Meister Eckhart ~ The Hope of Loving}
2007-06-10 13:12:17 · 19 answers · asked by .. 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
i really like ur answer vanhammer
2007-06-10 14:51:24 · update #1
Babies actually die if they are not cared for and touched, held, LOVED when they are born. (even with food and water needs met)
LIFE HAS GOT TO BE ABOUT LOVE.....and finding our way back to the source of LOVE by way of free will.....the only way to appreciate LOVE for what it is.
Earthly lovers (people) can teach us the intricate dance of the divine on a microcosm scale....but it is all designed to take us heavenward!
It is essential that those closest to us, are kind....life is too long/short for relationships to be unhealthy.
It all starts within us. Each of us who value love MUST shine brightly to those who are in need.....
Love makes the world go round.....
2007-06-10 13:41:17 · answer #1 · answered by someone 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Poetic. But I think Meister Eckhart diminishes our humanity. Love is wonderful - but what allowed me to endure long before I had any hope of loving was the self-respect I had been taught by those who had loved me - and my sense of duty to all those men and women who had endured unimaginable hardship and passed life on to me. So not HOPE, or love alone, but pride without hubris, and gratitude for life itself - and curiosity - which are the gifts of love.
2007-06-10 15:37:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree that love and being loved is the greatest feeling in the world. And the love I share with my wife has helped me get through a lot of things. Also, having a loving family helps us to endure as well. I think everyone wants to love and be loved and accepted by someone. It helps me to feel more alive and to endure the ups and downs of life.
2007-06-10 14:33:56 · answer #3 · answered by vanhammer 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Hi rooster~I think the poem is lovely. Yet I don't agree with it in the way it focuses only on hoping for love, or being loved. Being alive is so very, very much more than that. I wouldn't
"wither" without it. There are so many things I value, & in which I'm deeply involved. I can say that I "love" nature, the research of dreams, painting, music, cooking, reading, my profession, my cat, & more. Every living thing has its own needs to be "nurtured"--this is the word I like best. We live to thrive, & to thrive we require any number of things. I am NOT tossing "love" in the dumpster, but I honestly have no reason to believe this is what keeps us alive. I've crossed paths with some very creative people, whose only passion was their creativity, & they were very much alive, & in harmony with themselves. It's beauifully written, & very romantic--but doesn't apply to everyone. (If we were unloved, would we DIE?)
2007-06-10 14:59:48 · answer #4 · answered by Psychic Cat 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
That which keeps us alive can only come down to who we are inside. What we are is all we are born as and all that surrounds us and how we appreciate or push it away. There can be a sadness and a joy in knowing that we live for that around us. To live for the love of other things and our love for them is a blessing to us. It can be sad if we only live for that, but it is a joy, so is it wrong? Only if we do not return the joy to those things around us which give us life. Our hearts are our own, but, we have to recognize and appreciate that which gives our heart the beat that guides us. Our hearts are our measure of balancing both. Neither one or the other should rule our life, but a marriage of what we share with life itself.
2007-06-10 17:11:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Very poetic and romantic, but not particularly accurate. Love is a wonderful thing, but it can be even more fleeting than life itself. If you spent your life waiting for love, you'd have a melancholy existence. Love comes, goes, modulates, mutates and evolves over time. It is rarely constant.
If all you had in life was love, somehow I don't think that would be enough.
2007-06-10 13:59:02 · answer #6 · answered by Malcolm D 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Almost but in Greek mythology it is just hope. Pandora's Box everyone remembers the plague she release on humanity but that box contained hope. That what gives humanity the will to endure, will in Greek mythology anyways.
2007-06-10 13:27:17 · answer #7 · answered by Ripper 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hope & Love goes hand in hand...
if one fails to support the other, both falters at the same time.
Loving gives Hope to Live...
to get on with Life in any Hardship.
Love can accomplish Feats that would seem impossible,
with Hope pushing it through the most difficult times.
without Hope.. Love wont risk, wont Learn, wont Grow.
but Hope wihout Love has no meaning, no purpose..
We hope to live happy, because we love Life..
We hope for our Family's wellbeing because we Love them..
We hope & Love..... to Live....
i Hope you are Loved for who you are,
i hope you found the Love you're Hoping for.!
:-)
2007-06-10 17:04:48 · answer #8 · answered by enki 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Interesting.
2007-06-11 04:17:58 · answer #9 · answered by Crossroads Keeper 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
People who want to be loved are very unhappy as the desire to be loved is to believe that one is unloved. To be unlovable.
Oddly, love is an emotion, but as a species we tend to define actions as being demonstrative of love.
2007-06-10 13:36:16 · answer #10 · answered by guru 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋