08-25-2004, 09:14 PM
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Thanks Pegasus! Whiles here's an interesting quote from the Divine Love and Wisdom -1 page (same site) ...
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Love Is Man's Life
People know that love exists, but they do not know what love is. They realize that love exists because of everyday language--for example, people say, "He loves me," "The ruler loves his subjects," "The subjects love their ruler," "The husband loves his wife," "The mother loves her children, and they love her," and "He loves his country, his fellow-citizen, his neighbor." People say the same sort of thing about impersonal objects, for example, "He loves this or that thing." But in spite of the fact that "love" is so pervasively present in speech, scarcely anyone knows what love is.
Since people cannot formulate any concept of it when they reflect on it, they say either that it isn't really anything, or that it is merely something that flows in from sight, hearing, touch, and conversation and therefore exerts an influence. People are utterly unaware that it is their very life--not just the general life of their whole body and the general life of all their thoughts, but the life of their every element.
This is something a wise person can perceive as he says, "If you take away affection, which belongs to love, can you think anything? Can you do anything? To the extent that affection, which belongs to love, cools off, do not thought and speech and action cool off?. And as the one warms up, do not the others warm up?" But this wise person is not perceiving these matters on the basis of a thought that love is a person's life, but on the basis of his experience that this is how things happen.
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So when the body dies, and consciousness departs, where do "we" go? ... Off to define another "reality" perhaps? 
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