“There are only two emotions: love and fear. All positive emotions come from love, all negative emotions from fear. From love flows happiness, contentment, peace, and joy. From fear comes anger, hate, anxiety, and guilt. It’s true that there are only two primary emotions, love and fear. But it’s more accurate to say that there is only love or fear, for we cannot feel these two emotions together, at exactly the same time. They’re opposites. If we’re in fear, we are not in a place of love. When we’re in a place of love, we cannot be in a place of fear.” —Elizabeth Kubler Ross / Posted because its interesting, but also disagreed with: Love permits one to acknowledge fear and handle it. In perfectly calm pinnacle experiences of love, fear is there, too - fear of unknown possibilities of losing the beloved, fear of mortality in general. Its a powerful love that, in its most precious moments of total calm, allows you to feel time passing with nothing occurring but that passing, in an extremely pure way - and in that moment, you are in fact dying a bit in your beloveds arms, as they are dying in yours. (I dont mean le petit mort, but that does hold some resonance here, too: an active rather than calm way of doing the same.) Its fearful in a way that is purely meditative, and absolutely not panicking. Negotiating those moments that are completely inevitable (and in fact to be treasured as exquisite) in the most powerful love you will ever experience is a matter of having to learn how it is that, underneath all of the surface details, being in life is always, at every single turn and moment of stillness alike, constantly a matter of also saying goodbye to it - or to others. Always. Consider it another angle of approach to a Heideggerian being-toward-death of Dasein, if you will: albeit with a respect for subjectivity that does not attempt to liquidate the need for attentively considered ethical categories (as Heideggers work so meticulously and shamefully did), but instead, underscores that need, and even engages those categories in their actuality in the most active ways both imaginable - and as of yet unimagined.
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 16:53:12 +0000
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