In the hearts of many, love can be the most important thing in the world.
Is it?
In what definition?
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It seems that the common idea of love is key to some of the very most important and enduring relationships in our life,
potentially giving us friendship, romance and joy.
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There are different definitions of love.
This is mine:
Love: a powerful, often intense, binding feeling that we develop for someone or something that we are attracted to and want to share time with or at least have wishes of wellness for.
To me, well-wishes are essential to love.
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My definition seems functional, boiled down to possible longing to spend time together and essential well-wishes.
To me intensity separates love from liking, where love involves more commitment to goals of sharing time and ensuring wellness, whereas ‘liking’ involves less dedication.
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The distinction where desire to spend time together isn’t essential to love
but wishes for wellness are, seems clear. I.e. We can love all life and wish the best but not necessarily want to be with all life. Love in this sense reflects intense caring even in the absence of compatibility.
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For me inclusion vitalizes this equation; Love should include general well-wishes for all.
Is Love the most important thing in the world?
That’s totally a perspective;
It seems likely that the more love and care there is to reduce harm and disdain, the better we will function together.
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Functionality and Love?
To me, they go hand in hand.
Love involves caring, nurturing and protecting.
It can lead to cooperation, collaboration and joy. All the products of love and actions in love can help create a better quality of life. What could be more functional than that?
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Sure love can go bad and hurt
in the sense of romantic love especially or in any loss of love or in unrequited love
but at least in the definition I maintain, general well-wishes and the powerful benefits should far outweigh the tough moments.
Love unites people more than it divides.
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Heartbreak is awful but it is arguably better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all.
The benefits of uniting so people live, work and achieve together, have joy together, logically helps in a direction to develop a better quality of life for everyone and everything.
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To me, if love is the key to improving quality of life in the world, which it very well could be, then it is the most important thing in the world.
Love is about caring, inclusion, patience and affection.
If we love each other, we are working together for a better world. ☮️&♥️
Belief is our everything, how we understand and embrace it.
Does belief rule our world?
How do we change belief?
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Our senses and logic bring us belief. Genetics and physical constitution must contribute, but still, belief seems to be mainly a mental production.
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Belief seems largely driven by our perception of the environment and our social learning.
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We build beliefs by perceiving our universe, learning from our own studies and those of others.
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We may built trust in a belief based on trust of our senses, our environment & our teachers.
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How we interpret our senses and experience, our reason, also directly builds and supports our beliefs.
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For each person each of these is without question different:
•life experience
•sense of reason
•location
•brain
•sensory organs
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Naturally our beliefs are different.
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We face each day with a belief system that may or may not conflict with others around us.
How do we navigate this?
I often suspend disbelief (but still react to safety risks).
I remain agnostic about a subject to avoid conflict while I analyze data and to function socially.
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Does belief rule our world?
Most of our actions occur because we are acting on our beliefs.
Seems obvious that we should be careful what we believe.
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We learn what to believe.
Is it more important to learn how to believe?
Emphasis on verifying our senses & checking our reason?
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We may form a belief and take care doing so but
What if some new contradictory evidence arrives?
and maybe the evidence is suggestive but not convincing.
How do we change belief?
We must be fully convinced in a new belief & reject the old belief, otherwise we are left uncertain.
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In our life, we are often left uncertain, yet are still required to develop a belief regardless of the possibly confusing and changing data.
This is when society, especially our closest contacts and the media entities we follow, can really influence us.
Note: Verify our sources.
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Beliefs can form from conscious decision, such as induction and inference, based on (perhaps inconclusive) evidence that’s also influenced by social suggestion and pressure.
Social influence like modern media can cause a decision to believe that isn’t totally conclusive.
Be careful.
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Ultimately, belief changes with mounting evidence.
At a point, logical deduction concludes without question that new belief is true
because there appears to be no way it could be otherwise.
Spirit has a powerful meaning in humanity, yet it is sometimes treated as nonsense or taken for granted.
Is it tangible?
In what definition?
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To begin with: Can anyone deny that there is a connection that runs through everything?
It is everything.
There is a whole.
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Sure, our consciousness seems to typically stick with our immediate environment and life experience, but in some sense we are connected to the farthest reaches of the universe or any multiverse for that matter.
We are one
to the best of my understanding
with every possibility.
Everything.
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How does spirit tie into all this?
Looking now,
I think spirit takes energy of the whole: a shared consciousness that connects forms or beings across environment, time and space. Tangibility depends on the individual circumstances; There are changing possibilities and perspectives.
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I wanted to point out that different perspectives can confirm or deny spirit.
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Some claim to know the absolute.
I might say that sometimes, there may be no such thing.
It’s about perspective right?
What we know is absolute?
Our brain is limited
But it has an angle all its own.
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Paradox?
Multiple experiences
opposing
overlapping
conflicting or existing in a moment when we’re either oblivious to other perspectives
or unable to humanly comprehend their existence
Yet I can clearly still be affected by something or someone even if it’s outside my paradigm.
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Running with my definition of spirit as “connection” it becomes nonsense to people when they’re disconnected like if there’s limited tangibility.
Constantly running through different perspectives, different paradigms and comprehension-cancelling paradox,
some will never recognize spirit.
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The fact is, spirit exists for some people and is not recognized by others.
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It seems very tangible to me in specific instances when reality reaches out as in synchronicity.
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I very often find a general presence like a good mood and attitude to connect to the wellness-driven whole.
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So, for my definition, Spirit, in one sense as an apparently transcendental connection to our world and universe can be observable and influence mood.
This is tangible to me, but may not be to others.
I believe in it. I don’t expect others to
but I may convince them if we talk.
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Spirituality and science?
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The world is full of other perspectives, possibilities and paradox.
What is the truth?
Spirit for now is an absolutely recognizable idea in our world.
Just as science but not as tangible or defined and therefore, not as practical.
MacroMichael 