Comments on: Dave’s Valentine List of Love http://brentmack.edublogs.org/2008/02/24/daves-valentine-list-of-love/ One at a Time Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:15:16 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Brent http://brentmack.edublogs.org/2008/02/24/daves-valentine-list-of-love/comment-page-1/#comment-269 Brent Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:31:28 +0000 http://brentmack.edublogs.org/2008/02/24/daves-valentine-list-of-love/#comment-269 I like your distinction between what the author (and others) says about his criteria of love and how by defining criteria you are creating a barrier to feeling love as a never ceasing experience. Thanks for sharing your perspective Tricia. Your take is as always refreshing and provokes more reflection in me. I initially thought his list was meant to be a positive message but seeing his article through your lens, I am seeing the limitations of looking at love in this way. I like your distinction between what the author (and others) says about his criteria of love and how by defining criteria you are creating a barrier to feeling love as a never ceasing experience. Thanks for sharing your perspective Tricia. Your take is as always refreshing and provokes more reflection in me. I initially thought his list was meant to be a positive message but seeing his article through your lens, I am seeing the limitations of looking at love in this way.

]]> By: Trish http://brentmack.edublogs.org/2008/02/24/daves-valentine-list-of-love/comment-page-1/#comment-268 Trish Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:24:55 +0000 http://brentmack.edublogs.org/2008/02/24/daves-valentine-list-of-love/#comment-268 Thanks for sharing this article Brent. I respect the author's perspective but it does not match mine. It seems to me that love is what we are, not what we do. I see the criterion that we use to define varying degrees of love as a way to construct barriers to who we really are. It’s just not how I FEEL about love. I can honestly say to anything I meet—whether it be a person, place or thing—that I have always loved you, I love you now and I will love you always. I can say this because love is what connects me to all—it is my reflection in everything that I am responding to. I love family, friends and strangers the same because we are all (equally) human and thus perfectly flawed, and to love everyone is to love my own humanity and flaws. I love art on the same level because I love my inner artist. I love beautiful things on the same level because I love my own beauty. I have found that as I choose to remove the barriers that obstruct my inherent nature (infinite love), the more I feel love in everything. God is Love and to love me is to embrace MY god. Thanks for sharing this article Brent. I respect the author’s perspective but it does not match mine. It seems to me that love is what we are, not what we do. I see the criterion that we use to define varying degrees of love as a way to construct barriers to who we really are. It’s just not how I FEEL about love.

I can honestly say to anything I meet—whether it be a person, place or thing—that I have always loved you, I love you now and I will love you always. I can say this because love is what connects me to all—it is my reflection in everything that I am responding to. I love family, friends and strangers the same because we are all (equally) human and thus perfectly flawed, and to love everyone is to love my own humanity and flaws. I love art on the same level because I love my inner artist. I love beautiful things on the same level because I love my own beauty. I have found that as I choose to remove the barriers that obstruct my inherent nature (infinite love), the more I feel love in everything.

God is Love and to love me is to embrace MY god.

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