In the sacred joining of lips are secrets the tongue cannot tell.
Making love is better than talking about it, and in the sacred joining of lips are secrets the tongue cannot tell. If you must use words, a story is better than a treatise, and a poem better than a novel. Even though love is vital to us, it refuses to be contained within concepts. Our language makes manifest this mess. We can love wine, music, country, job, family, and also that special person. This very loose usage doesn’t bother us much. The real ambiguity and misunderstandings arise when we talk about love for a particular person.
"I love you". Is that not clear?
Then you hear one day: “You don’t really love me, because if you did, then…”
Have you experienced that terrible time when you thought you loved, but your beloved tells you something else? Or the day of doom when you thought you were loved, but your beloved changes the narrative?
Your doubt in such a moment is profound, often amplified by the ideal you have created.
“Hello. I love you. What's your name?"
So reads the insignia of a parisian clothing boutique. In this context, "love" obviously means attraction. In other contexts, it could mean admiration, attachment, excitement, longing, desire, bonding, inspiration, bliss, harmony, ecstasy. All of these describe how we may feel when we are in love. You wouldn't be fudging it if you felt such emotions and declared your love for someone.
Yet, love without deed is not love indeed. So then we also have other words to describe what it means to love, in deed. Patience, loyalty, generosity, dedication, care, tenderness, commitment, attention, sharing, understanding. These qualities describe how love causes us to act.
Love in deed.
They are required to love a single person, but not exclusively. A truly loving person could not contain these qualities to a single relationship.
Feeling the emotions associated with love while performing love's deeds is a good proxy for knowing what love is. Still, its mystery remains. The Hebrews assigned a name to God that could not be uttered, not because God would be mad if you said His name, but because there is no word possible. This is also the case for love in its ultimate and original expression. The gospel according to John affirms that God is Love, thereby reducing theology to rubble.
Love is divine.
Love is sublime.
There is nothing else to know, and there is no word possible.
LEO's musical associations:
#Sublime#Seine#God