Guest guest Posted August 27, 2009 Report Share Posted August 27, 2009 Nisargadatta , " toombaru2006 " <lastrain wrote: Everything that a human being does is a successful or unsuccessful attempt to > find what it calls love. > > Love is the seeking for a release from the tension that comes with sentience. > > Life as an imaginary self is a frightening and lonely place. > > Life as an identified entity is never ending quest for its personal fulfillment > and completion. > > The self evolved to search for those things and events that help appease its > unquenchable thirst for homeostasis. > > In that sense love is truly the fundament, the foundation and the framework out > of which the sense of self emerges. > > Love is its very function. > > It couldn't live without love.....and yet can never attain it. > > It IS the love-quest. > > To reach its goal....is to lose itself. > > > toombaru > Edg: Let's all encourage Toom to keep posting here -- otherwise he might get a job writing Hallmark cards and thereby smother uncountable others with gooey dreck. So, ya see?, we'd be keeping the world safe by taking one for the team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 27, 2009 Report Share Posted August 27, 2009 Nisargadatta , " toombaru2006 " <lastrain wrote: Everything that a human being does is a successful or unsuccessful attempt to > find what it calls love. > > Love is the seeking for a release from the tension that comes with sentience. > > Life as an imaginary self is a frightening and lonely place. > > Life as an identified entity is never ending quest for its personal fulfillment > and completion. > > The self evolved to search for those things and events that help appease its > unquenchable thirst for homeostasis. > > In that sense love is truly the fundament, the foundation and the framework out > of which the sense of self emerges. > > Love is its very function. > > It couldn't live without love.....and yet can never attain it. > > It IS the love-quest. > > To reach its goal....is to lose itself. > > > toombaru There's certainly some truth to all that. " Fear of intimacy " is very common indeed. Intimacy signals a loss of oneself, of the boundaries we establish to separate " me " from " you " . When the self dissolves... intimacy is, without an object. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 27, 2009 Report Share Posted August 27, 2009 Nisargadatta , " duveyoung " <edg wrote: > > Nisargadatta , " toombaru2006 " <lastrain@> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Everything that a human being does is a successful or unsuccessful attempt to > > find what it calls love. > > > > Love is the seeking for a release from the tension that comes with sentience. > > > > Life as an imaginary self is a frightening and lonely place. > > > > Life as an identified entity is never ending quest for its personal fulfillment > > and completion. > > > > The self evolved to search for those things and events that help appease its > > unquenchable thirst for homeostasis. > > > > In that sense love is truly the fundament, the foundation and the framework out > > of which the sense of self emerges. > > > > Love is its very function. > > > > It couldn't live without love.....and yet can never attain it. > > > > It IS the love-quest. > > > > To reach its goal....is to lose itself. > > > > > > toombaru > > > > Edg: Let's all encourage Toom to keep posting here -- otherwise he might get a job writing Hallmark cards and thereby smother uncountable others with gooey dreck. So, ya see?, we'd be keeping the world safe by taking one for the team. > Edg, I haven't heard the word *dreck* since my mom died. Could should have walked in? lol. What am I going to do with you? ~A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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