I offer another way of saying what Winfried does when she write:
>Let me define hurt as the state of consciousness separated from reality.
>Hurting then are all >actions taken based on this separation. Love is the
>state of consciousness in full congruence with reality.
A general systems thinker I knew (George Ainsworth Land) used to define
pain and love this way:
"Love is the making of ever-more-complex connections. Pain comes from
breaking connections."
He didn't require that these connections be between consciousness and
reality, however. They were between a person and another person and, by
extension, between a person (or consciousness) and anything -- such as an
idea or physical aspects of reality (such as a place or a thing.)
--"John Gunkler" <jgunkler@sprintmail.com>
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