Hi, dear Steemians!
Love is an interesting concept, but if you really pay attention, we don’t talk about it as much as we should.
It is almost as if we see ‘love’ as just another social taboo that should be repressed and ignored whenever possible.
But our love and compassion for people or things, persons of interest or higher causes, defines who we are as a human being and charts a path for our life to unfold over time.
In the Symposium, written by the great philosopher Plato, Socrates describes love as a ladder that can be climbed to yet greater states of sensational existence.
If we are talking about romantic love with a person, the feelings may first arise from appearance.
You may fancy the way someone looks. This sexual desire is the first of the many steps that one will have to take in order to reach the top of the ladder.
Your feelings will not step there. After craving the apparel of someone will come the phase of knowing them and their wisdom.
Their characteristics, beliefs, tendencies, and etc. are all aspects that will make you fall for them with much more ferocity and energy.
Socrates describes the whole process of climbing the ladder as starting from instinct and the mundane needs of human nature and ascending to ‘wisdom’ and ‘understanding’ through an unexpected journey.
The same could be said about anything that we might be passionate about. When you are passionate about something, you begin a journey of understanding and realization to the heart of that thing.
You understand their nature and by doing that become one with them so far as empathy is concerned.
Being compassionate about something is a journey of self-discovery and ascendance to something greater than you were before.
A lot of the things that happen in the modern society disturb me. In the books written by the American author, George R. R. Martin, there is a quote that has always made me think about the human nature.
‘Chaos is a ladder.’ Goes the quote. Many people fall into a pit of despair and start taking advantage of those around them to meet their ends.
In truth, the only thing that will ever truly make us better and higher than who we were before is ‘love’ and ‘passion’, but these people see chaos as an opportunity that they could exploit.
For such people who have no moral compass to guide their intentions and thoughts, every wrongdoing and mistake in the world is an opportunity.
Do not feel guilty about love. There is nothing to be ashamed about when it comes to love.
When you are compassionate about something, that makes you better than most people who strip themselves of the bliss of falling for something and adoring it more than they adore and love themselves.
In the long run, passion always wins!
A BIG HUG!
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Please, take the time to read the text below, it can always change in some points and it is it that has made this community understand and help each other. I would like you to pay close attention to what is written in these notes. Try to really follow what I ask of all of you who are a few months old with me contributing meaningful comments and we have built something really good here along with people who have a positive mindset and we have managed to get more people together like that.
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NOTES ABOUT THIS BLOG!
Always read this text of notes because I can making important changes in this text like update names in the list and things to the growth and understanding of how we can improve our foundations and how this community was built until here.
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I have been working very hard on this blog since the beginning. I have a very busy life but I am giving my best and believe me I have shared experiences that I have been coaching thousands of people and I know that the change of the Mindset should be daily. I am already grateful to see you giving upvotes to each other and you can see this with the fact that many already have 8, 9, 10 upvotes. But I'm sure that with the effort of all of us we will see a community with, more and more upvotes each others and for that everyone should get engaged so we can make it come true. I believe and we can! Resteem...
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You all know the goal! We can reach: More and More Upvotes each others!
Attention!!!
I'm reading all the meaningful comments from the posts.
I am here making a list of all of you who have helped build this community by voting for each other who write meaningful comments and soon I will respond to everyone with comment and thank you all because I can already see this spirit being built in this Positive Mindset community and help between all of you.
You will receive my upvote in all material and brief comments I will do this in all the posts I am following very closely and I can see what the people who are generous and contribute to this legacy that I am trying to build with all of you can become reality in a short time.
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First of all, I would like to thank all of you, who are the most active and proactive in this community, showing your generosity and always with meaningful comments. From now on I will always make a list of these incredible people who have helped to expand our goal of growing ever more.
But I ask that if you are new around here you read many of the previous posts because they make it clear that we are building a community with respect among all, generosity and this blog is for those who really want to start moving their Mindset to positive and moreover be part of the growth of all of us who contribute to this blog. Please do not ask to include you in the list if you are just wanting upvotes because we want here people genuinely attuned to growth and good attitudes and as I have always said with Respect as the basis of all, generosity and positivity!
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