Love's Virtue

Love in Rehabilitation Series : VIII

The way that society, in general applies itself to notions of right and true has received considerable attention recently. We wonder sometimes at the intensity of such notions and attribute it to anxiety or fears. To be loud on an issue, for instance, conveys a willfulness but does not make clear what its position is. Quite often it is due to the fact that it doesn't have any.

It suffers the pain of its own intense scrutiny. It attempts a make-over that unfortunately starts with cajoling and not without a mild threat. It hopes to get it over as soon as possible and forget that it was ever in such a position.

The situation brings into one's experience many symptoms of pain and suffering. There's a blocked up sense to the passions, an avoidance of the usual factors that stirs up our past memories and then there's the unusual sense of isolation in a world in which we live alone, out of contact with everyone else.

We attempt to minimize these experiences so that it doesn't cause too much anxiety. But the reverse may well be true ...  not in a sense of revolting and bombing a government building ... but to take our pains and express them in a situation not unlike legends and stories. Our legends of the past has been specifically applied for this purpose.

Love will not tolerate any reference to its actions as being wrong but it will allow for an alternative perspective of the situation from the way we perceived it before. We may learn this in time but not before we bring all our might to do all the wrong things in search of a resolution. Only when we are convinced that it can't be done with hammer and sickle do we view other options.

The human is a thinking individual and is subject to a pattern of behavior that starts with the normal attitudes of denial, fabrication and then acceptance. Beyond the denial stage we create lip service to that which we encounter as undeniable. But before the acceptance stage we have to engage an active involvement in the issues and convince ourselves that such perceptions that we have come across is true.

The imperatives of love seldom allow for any other way. It was there at the birth of the stars and it is here today as an enduring quality of experience of the life. It may want us to know its quiet resilience and strength.