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In the interest of beginning an inquiry, a conversation..., I offer this quote for discussion.
http://www.ahalmaas.com/glossary/eros
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Mountain metaphor:
http://www.ahalmaas.com/glossary/mountain-metaphor/2298
http://www.ahalmaas.com/glossary/mountain-metaphor/2299
Love Unifies Desire with Selfless Giving
Eros is a god, and the true mission of eros is to bring us to the experience and realization of what real love can be in all its dimensions. Eros shows us how love unifies not only spirit and body, but also desire with selfless giving. In wanting your partner, lover, husband or wife, you are giving them your heart. But this is not the kind of wanting that most people know. When we feel wanting and desire, we experience it at the level of the first mountain, which most people call eros. But in our exploration, we want to know the true nature of divine eros, which is the same as seeing it from the perspective of the second mountain.
- A. H. Almaas - The Power of Divine Eros, p. 61
Eros is a god, and the true mission of eros is to bring us to the experience and realization of what real love can be in all its dimensions. Eros shows us how love unifies not only spirit and body, but also desire with selfless giving. In wanting your partner, lover, husband or wife, you are giving them your heart. But this is not the kind of wanting that most people know. When we feel wanting and desire, we experience it at the level of the first mountain, which most people call eros. But in our exploration, we want to know the true nature of divine eros, which is the same as seeing it from the perspective of the second mountain.
- A. H. Almaas - The Power of Divine Eros, p. 61
http://www.ahalmaas.com/glossary/eros
______________________
Mountain metaphor:
http://www.ahalmaas.com/glossary/mountain-metaphor/2298
http://www.ahalmaas.com/glossary/mountain-metaphor/2299