THE ULTIMATE IMPORTANCE OF LOVE—A VIDEO POEM ON THE WHOLE GREAT LOVE OF JACK AND KATHARINE
The German poet Rainer Marie Rilke's quote sets the central theme of Love as the Ultimate Accomplishment for Humanity: "For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation." Rainer Marie Rilke
The video goes on to tell the story of the SoulMates Jack and Katharine and their creation and maintenance of a Whole Great Love. It includes poems written by Jack to celebrate her life.
The quote by the American cardiologist James J. Lynch taken from his The Broken Heart expresses the Dilemma of True Love:
“The reality is that all relationships inevitably will be dissolved and broken. The ultimate price exacted for commitment to other human beings rests in the inescapable fact that loss and pain will be experienced when they are gone...It is a toll that no one can escape, and a price that everyone will be forced to pay repeatedly. A prescription to nourish human companionship is, therefore, a unique type of health tonic. Part of the inescapable human dilemma is that the same companionship that keeps people healthy can also seriously threaten their health when it is taken away.”
This video poem is meant to bring you to Jack’s Pairing Today website:
https://www.pairingtoday.com/
We are evolved to obtain natural happiness ONLY through intimate Human Relationships. That is my life's guiding premise founded on empirical research and my own experience. I am convinced most human destructiveness to self and others—from wars to suicides—comes from impaired or absent human relationships. Those who have enriched and enabled relationships do not destroy themselves or others. ALL of our so-called mental illnesses or diseases are a result of negative or missing relationships.
Therefore, if we would be sane and healthy in body and mind, and bring peace and prosperity to our planet, our attention and care should be targeted on our relationships.
Agreeing with Rilke, I consider the achievement of an Intimate and Equal Love between consenting adults to be the most difficult, rarest and highest of Human achievements. My goal is to enable persons worldwide to create and maintain such Relationships.