#quotations — Public Fediverse posts

This Business of Love — Claude Comments

“When we ourselves do not love everyone, why we should expect or want everyone to love us?”

Claude Comments:

There’s a real insight here, and it sits nicely alongside your recent aphorisms on love — but let me engage with both the thought and the phrasing honestly.

The idea. The aphorism works as a mirror-argument: it exposes a common asymmetry in the human heart. We ration our own love carefully — extending it to those who please us, withholding it from those who don’t — yet we feel wounded, even indignant, when the world doesn’t love us universally. Pointing out that hypocrisy has genuine force, and it has good lineage: it echoes the Gospel’s “why beholdest thou the mote in thy brother’s eye,” and in the Advaitic register it gestures at the ego’s structure — the ahamkara demands from the world what it refuses to give, precisely because it experiences itself as the centre and others as periphery.

A philosophical wrinkle worth considering. As stated, the aphorism could be read two ways, and they lead in opposite directions:

1. Deflationary reading: “Lower your expectations — you don’t love everyone, so don’t expect universal love.” This counsels realism, a kind of stoic adjustment.
2. Aspirational reading: “The remedy for craving universal love is to become universal love yourself.” This is the Advaitic/Christian direction — when one abides as the Self, the question of receiving love dissolves because the lover/beloved division dissolves.

The aphorism currently states only the diagnosis, not which cure you intend. That’s not necessarily a flaw — good aphorisms often leave the reader at the fork — but you might consider whether a companion aphorism could supply the second movement. Something in the spirit of: the demand to be loved is the ego’s business; the capacity to love is the Self’s nature. Nisargadatta’s line comes to mind here — that wisdom says “I am nothing,” love says “I am everything.” Your aphorism sits in the gap between those two.

One small counterpoint to test it against. A critic might say: wanting to be loved isn’t hypocrisy, it’s simply need — the infant wants love before it can give any. The aphorism treats an existential hunger as if it were a logical inconsistency. I think the aphorism survives this objection (its target is expectation and demand, not the bare wish), but the word “want” slightly weakens it, because wanting love isn’t blameworthy in the way expecting it is. You might consider whether “expect or demand” is tighter than “expect or want.”

The phrasing. Two small edits:

• Word order: “why should we expect” rather than “why we should expect.”
• “When” could arguably be “If” — “When” implies the condition always holds (true enough of most of us, but “If” makes it a cleaner logical hinge and less accusatory toward the reader).

So a polished version might read:

“If we ourselves do not love everyone, why should we expect everyone to love us?”

Or, if you want to keep the softer double verb: “…why should we expect, or even want, everyone to love us?” — the “even” acknowledges that wanting is more forgivable than expecting.

Love & Truth

“To begin to understand love is to begin to understand the truth.”

Love & Lust

“Love is one way to conquer lust. Actually, love is a good and pleasant way to conquer many evils in ourselves. Never ever underestimate love, not even romantic love.”

Do The Needful

“End the dream before life ends.”

Technology, Love and Compassion

“Where there is technology, love and compassion may not follow. But where there is love and compassion, technology will follow. Think about why that is the case and you would have understood something very, very significant about life and its secret.”

Technology, Love and Compassion

“Where there is technology, love and compassion may not follow. But where there is love and compassion, technology will follow. Think about why that is the case and you would have understood something very, very significant about life and its secret.”

Technology, Love and Compassion

“Where there is technology, love and compassion may not follow. But where there is love and compassion, technology will follow. Think about why that is the case and you would have understood something very, very significant about life and its secret.”

Technology, Love and Compassion

“Where there is technology, love and compassion may not follow. But where there is love and compassion, technology will follow. Think about why that is the case and you would have understood something very, very significant about life and its secret.”

Technology, Love and Compassion

“Where there is technology, love and compassion may not follow. But where there is love and compassion, technology will follow. Think about why that is the case and you would have understood something very, very significant about life and its secret.”

The Divided Self

“We tend to compartmentalize our self. Like for instance, we try to be the tough-minded boss at work, and the tender-hearted husband/parent at home. This shows we have not understood life and so we complicate life for ourselves and others.”

Salvation

“In sacrificing your own salvation for the sake of another, you will attain salvation more quickly.”

Us Human Beings

“I am so, so disappointed with all of us human beings, and I do not exclude myself from that disappointment. We are all so stupid.”

Love Vs. Understanding

“Sometimes I wonder if it is the case that in my life there are two kinds of people: (1) Those who love me, (2) Those who understand me, and these sets seem to be mutually exclusive.”

Do Others Understand Us

“It is so damn difficult to find someone who understands you as well as you understand yourself, unless we are talking about your therapist because the therapist understands you better than you understand yourself.”

The Shit That is Happening in My Life

“I accept, fully accept the shit that is happening in my life right now because we all get what we deserve, because after all karma is unerring and God is just, who am I to complain.”

The So-called Problems

“Do not try to solve your problems. They are NOT your problems. They are the problems of the body-mind. And you are NOT the body-mind but Consciousness. Moreover, the problems are there ONLY because you are now thinking that you are the body-mind. Think why that is the case.”

The Stupidity of People

“People are stupid in that they think there are only physical laws governing this universe, without countenancing the fact that there are also psychological laws, moral laws, metaphysical laws, ontological laws, karmic laws, etc. People are stupid.”

Sciences as Merely Palliative

“All the sciences, be they natural or social sciences, can help humanity only partially because they can only help one alleviate the symptoms, and that, too, only temporarily because as long the disease called ignorance festers inside, it will keep producing some new symptom or the other to which the scientists have to keep responding anew. What is that ignorance? Think and find out.”

Sciences as Merely Palliative

“All the sciences, be they natural or social sciences, can help humanity only partially because they can only help one alleviate the symptoms, and that, too, only temporarily because as long the disease called ignorance festers inside, it will keep producing some new symptom or the other to which the scientists have to keep responding anew. What is that ignorance? Think and find out.”

Sciences as Merely Palliative

“All the sciences, be they natural or social sciences, can help humanity only partially because they can only help one alleviate the symptoms, and that, too, only temporarily because as long the disease called ignorance festers inside, it will keep producing some new symptom or the other to which the scientists have to keep responding anew. What is that ignorance? Think and find out.”

Sciences as Merely Palliative

“All the sciences, be they natural or social sciences, can help humanity only partially because they can only help one alleviate the symptoms, and that, too, only temporarily because as long the disease called ignorance festers inside, it will keep producing some new symptom or the other to which the scientists have to keep responding anew. What is that ignorance? Think and find out.”

Sciences as Merely Palliative

“All the sciences, be they natural or social sciences, can help humanity only partially because they can only help one alleviate the symptoms, and that, too, only temporarily because as long the disease called ignorance festers inside, it will keep producing some new symptom or the other to which the scientists have to keep responding anew. What is that ignorance? Think and find out.”

Fear of Dying

“Most of the world drama is driven by the fear of dying.”

Fear of Dying

“Most of the world drama is driven by the fear of dying.”

Love is a Manifestation of the Truth

“What is love but one of the purest ways truth manifests in this world of duality.”

Love is an All-Or-None Phenomenon

“Love is an all-or-none phenomenon. Either you have it or you don’t. And once you have it, you cannot exercise choice as to who you will love and who you will not because just like a flower cannot help but emit the perfume to everyone around, you cannot but keep expressing the love that is in you towards everyone.”

Life is simple, but…

“Life is simple. But simplicity bores the hell out of us, hence this world drama.”

The Delusion Called Love

“What is love but an attraction between two deluded people, and all people in this world are deluded. Wake up!”

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- Oscar Wilde

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #OscarWilde #Quotations

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LavaFlow #Galapagos #Geology

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- Oscar Wilde

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #OscarWilde #Quotations

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LavaFlow #Galapagos #Geology

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- Oscar Wilde

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #OscarWilde #Quotations

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LavaFlow #Galapagos #Geology

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- Oscar Wilde

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #OscarWilde #Quotations

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LavaFlow #Galapagos #Geology

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- Oscar Wilde

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #OscarWilde #Quotations

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LavaFlow #Galapagos #Geology

For business, prestige, history, beauty: why (and how) one invests in wine, for Knight Frank

Global geopolitical uncertainty caused b…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #ItalianWine #Italianwine #(territory) ##economy ##investments #ALEXANDERHALL #BILLTHOMSON #business #Italia #Italian #italiano #italy #knightfrank #market #Quotations #vineyards #Wine #winetourism #wineries
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2662106/for-business-prestige-history-beauty-why-and-how-one-invests-in-wine-for-knight-frank/

For business, prestige, history, beauty: why (and how) one invests in wine, for Knight Frank

Global geopolitical uncertainty caused b…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #ItalianWine #Italianwine #(territory) ##economy ##investments #ALEXANDERHALL #BILLTHOMSON #business #Italia #Italian #italiano #italy #knightfrank #market #Quotations #vineyards #Wine #winetourism #wineries
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2662106/for-business-prestige-history-beauty-why-and-how-one-invests-in-wine-for-knight-frank/

For business, prestige, history, beauty: why (and how) one invests in wine, for Knight Frank

Global geopolitical uncertainty caused b…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #ItalianWine #Italianwine #(territory) ##economy ##investments #ALEXANDERHALL #BILLTHOMSON #business #Italia #Italian #italiano #italy #knightfrank #market #Quotations #vineyards #Wine #winetourism #wineries
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2662106/for-business-prestige-history-beauty-why-and-how-one-invests-in-wine-for-knight-frank/

For business, prestige, history, beauty: why (and how) one invests in wine, for Knight Frank

Global geopolitical uncertainty caused b…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #ItalianWine #Italianwine #(territory) ##economy ##investments #ALEXANDERHALL #BILLTHOMSON #business #Italia #Italian #italiano #italy #knightfrank #market #Quotations #vineyards #Wine #winetourism #wineries
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2662106/for-business-prestige-history-beauty-why-and-how-one-invests-in-wine-for-knight-frank/

For business, prestige, history, beauty: why (and how) one invests in wine, for Knight Frank https://www.diningandcooking.com/2662106/for-business-prestige-history-beauty-why-and-how-one-invests-in-wine-for-knight-frank/ #(territory) ##economy ##investments #ALEXANDERHALL #BILLTHOMSON #business #Italia #Italian #ItalianWine #italiano #italy #KnightFrank #market #Quotations #vineyards #Wine #WineTourism #wineries

For business, prestige, history, beauty: why (and how) one invests in wine, for Knight Frank https://www.diningandcooking.com/2662106/for-business-prestige-history-beauty-why-and-how-one-invests-in-wine-for-knight-frank/ #(territory) ##economy ##investments #ALEXANDERHALL #BILLTHOMSON #business #Italia #Italian #ItalianWine #italiano #italy #KnightFrank #market #Quotations #vineyards #Wine #WineTourism #wineries

For business, prestige, history, beauty: why (and how) one invests in wine, for Knight Frank https://www.diningandcooking.com/2662106/for-business-prestige-history-beauty-why-and-how-one-invests-in-wine-for-knight-frank/ #(territory) ##economy ##investments #ALEXANDERHALL #BILLTHOMSON #business #Italia #Italian #ItalianWine #italiano #italy #KnightFrank #market #Quotations #vineyards #Wine #WineTourism #wineries

#French #Quotations #Flaubert

#French #Quotations #Flaubert

#French #Quotations #Flaubert

#French #Quotations #Flaubert

#French #Quotations #Flaubert

Il existe des lieux qui ne demandent rien, sinon l'absence de bruit. #penseedujour #fabricepigeard #quote #quotations #citations

Il existe des lieux qui ne demandent rien, sinon l'absence de bruit. #penseedujour #fabricepigeard #quote #quotations #citations

Dans le noir complet, on ne voit pas les couleurs, mais on finit par comprendre la forme pure des choses. #penseedujour #fabricepigeard #citation #cats #chats #quote #quotations