Thursday, December 25, 2008

16. Love: Multiplicity?


I move to consider the notion that we can be in romantic love with more than one person. Given the way my thoughts on the topic have grown, I find it necessary to once again define what Romantic Love is. Romantic Love is the combination of being in love with a partner's physical beauty (human/ sexual-reproductive level) and inner beauty (spiritual level).

I started off thinking that it is very easy and human o be in love with more than one person on the basis of physical beauty.

But yet again, it is possible and only right to be in love with every person on a spiritual level. This is if we possess the correct spiritual acumen, then it is only natural that we will be able to appreciate and love all.

So indeed this led me to realize that ironically that is on the human level of physical beauty that we keeps Romantic love as love for the few/one rather than love for the all since it is only natural on a reproductive basis that we want our physical partners exclusively to ourselves to better ensure the success of our offspring. Physical beauty also keeps romantic love an exclusive nature because of its "best fit" nature as opposed to spiritual love's "all fits" nature.

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