I imagine ultimate love as knowing and being known so completely that we are as one, without distinction. Oneness feels much like loneliness, and so I often handle loneliness by viewing it as the result of achieving ultimate love, and by feeling gratitude for my separations.
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Disagree. Real love involves each person's mental map of the other including some blank spaces, dark continents, 'here be monsters' zones, and refuges for privacy and mystique.
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I think the word 'love' encompasses a lot of things, and we mean differing things by it. I agree with you about how this functions in a relationship; my original tweet was using it in a more psychedelic sense.
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I don't believe total oneness is ideal for any romantic relationship. Separate identities is a must.
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Not sure if you’re familiar with “Evangelion”, but it gets into this idea, making for one of the most affecting animé I’ve ever seen.
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I sometimes wonder, if people start living long enough would couples eventually become so united that they get lonely and seek out relationships with other couples, and so on
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I find talking about ultimate love funny. “Love” seems/feels different depending on where your center of awareness is currently located. “Ultimate L_ve” seems to reside post-verbally, beyond but aware of “thinking”. Allows for individuality AND vastness. Giggle inducing.
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Love is being hopelessly attracted to someone without being able to explain why. If you can explain it or calculate it out, you’re not actually in love. Attraction/love is not rational, if it were, we’d never mate.
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