Guest guest Posted October 17, 2000 Report Share Posted October 17, 2000 Ninox ... your quote from Caroline Myss is great - although I disagree with one bit. She says: 'We are motivated by love, controlled by it, inspired by it, healed by it, and destroyed by it.' I don't believe we can be controlled or destroyed by love. Rather by the fear of its loss ? by some aspect of being without love. Love, surely, is the antithesis of control and destruction. In philosophical yet picky mood ... Arabella Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 17, 2000 Report Share Posted October 17, 2000 Destroyed, I don't know. But damaged, I would say that unrequited love might fall under that definition. On control, though, I think that you're attaching a negative connotation to the word control. When we do something for someone out of love (or don't, for that matter) we're operating under love's control. It may be an especially benign kind of control, but that doesn't change it's essential nature. I find that I really don't mind. ....always philosophical and always picky... Ray >Arabella McIntyre-Brown <abs > > > love >Tue, 17 Oct 2000 18:14:39 +0100 > >Ninox ... your quote from Caroline Myss is great - although I disagree >with one bit. She says: 'We are motivated by love, controlled by it, >inspired by it, healed by it, and destroyed by it.' I don't believe we >can be controlled or destroyed by love. Rather by the fear of its loss ? >by some aspect of being without love. Love, surely, is the antithesis of >control and destruction. > >In philosophical yet picky mood ... > >Arabella > > _______________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 18, 2000 Report Share Posted October 18, 2000 >But damaged, I would say that unrequited love might >fall under that definition. Using that as a springboard rather than responding to it, I would say, having been at the 'victim' end of an abusive relationship (I was young, I was distracted), that 'unrequited love', certainly in an abusive relationship, is addiction rather than love. There's a mild irony available as I did addict (or try to addict) rats in phsychological experiments back in my student days (I was young, I knew no better); now I can look back at those experiments and see the mechanisms we were trying to apply to the rats were applied to me years later, to powerful effect. Karma maybe... Ged Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 19, 2000 Report Share Posted October 19, 2000 In a message dated 10/17/2000 2:25:59 PM Central Daylight Time, rayhuntermt writes: << Destroyed, I don't know. But damaged, I would say that unrequited love might fall under that definition. On control, though, I think that you're attaching a negative connotation to the word control. When we do something for someone out of love (or don't, for that matter) we're operating under love's control. It may be an especially benign kind of control, but that doesn't change it's essential nature. I find that I really don't mind. ...always philosophical and always picky... >> To me devastated would be a better word than destroyed. Love never could destroy me but I can certainly allow it to devastate me if I don't have a godd self esteem. Just a thought Cecelia Be love and laugh!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 20, 2000 Report Share Posted October 20, 2000 I cannot speak for Caroline Myss but I have interpreted " destroyed by love " to mean destruction of the ego, but I would welcome other comments. Love and Light, Ninox P.S. Arabella and Ray, I love your prickles, I'm the one taking stinging nettle tea. LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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