RE: The Nature of Love
Yeah I think trust is important for any healthy relationship, romantic in nature or not.
I wonder what we can learn about love by looking at the language. The sound in love, "ove", which of course sounds more like "uv," doesn't seem to be too popular a sound in English. Off the top of my head I am thinking dove, glove, oven, cover, covet, govern and government, shovel and above. Figure out what these words all share in common and we might have some sort of clue as to what the fuck love is. May have something to do with being over something? "ove" showing up in over too. Doesn't support my theory that love is what's underneath all the rest of the shit lol.
You're right, we don't always love our families. I was going to say "loved ones" but thought I was using the word love too often lol
When you say we are all one I have a recurring thought of a similar nature. Much as how every cell in our body make up individual organs and then a greater human being, I wonder if we are acting as cells within organs within a greater whole. I was thinking the other day about the space in between particles they tell us of. Can you imagine if our planet is akin to a particle, and the vastness we call space is like the space between what we call particles? Or if the sun is like a nucleus and the planets are like the protons and electrons that orbit it, then the size of this universe becomes potentially so huge, especially if that universe is then just a cell in an organ in a greater whole. Lol. There's a quick way to make your head hurt.
Hmm.. Interesting that it shares a phonetic sound with govern/ment.
There's some interesting stuff to read over in the etymological dictionary.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/love#etymonline_v_14557
To me love is a positive energy for someone or something which we have an affinity for. Something or someone we "enjoy" and "joy" is one of the words used in the etymological dictionary. I do believe joy is what the word "violet" and "violin" mean, both of those things are things people tend to enjoy, but then we have "violence".. Which.. Makes that theory confusing, even though some do certainly enjoy violence and violence itself isn't always a bad thing.. It just means something like "swift" or a "swift action" like a wave in the ocean can be violent, it doesn't have to be physical fighting or anything necessarily negative like that.
Here's a list of words that rhyme with love, numerous of which you already mentioned.
http://www.rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi?typeofrhyme=perfect&Word=love
Not sure how much we can take away from the similar phonetically sounding words.. They seem quite diverse and quite different from the word love. If you think of anything lemme know, but I'm drawing blanks right now for the most part.
I've thought about that theory quite a bit in the past. And I think there might very well be some truth to it, it makes a lot of sense in an "as above, so below" kind of manner and.. Umm.. If the universe does go on forever maybe that is sort of how it works.. Perhaps there's infinite worlds above and below us that keep expanding and contracting into each other.
Maybe just like there are bacteria crawling through our body we are like bacteria crawling on the body of some giant, lol.. It reminds me of a quote by Manly P Hall.. Lemme see if I can find it.
"We are the gods of the atoms that make up ourselves but we are also the atoms of the gods that make up the universe." - Manly P. Hall.