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Eros is Passion
Today we are talking about Eros. In English, we have only the one word, love, but in Greek they have four words for love. We will be talking about only one of these. Eros could be described as passionate love. It does have links to sexuality, but isn’t limited to it. May I ask, what…
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Messenger Between
Eros in Greek mythology was a messenger between the gods and humanity inspiring more than sexual desire. But Eros did not have the broad scope of perception that the gods had (not actually being a god), and his actions often lead to complications for the mortals involved. Eros unintentionally led some people to pathos or…
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Rooted in the Passions
People look at the natural world, the plants and animals, and describe their ways as base, crass, even brutal. They think that art and truth and other aspects of beauty are somehow foreign to the natural world. We have these potentials within us because they stem from a potential that already existed in the world,…
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Play Pretend to Find Reality
How many people do you know in your lives who seem very passionate about anything at all? I know many that do. Role playing brings out the passion to create. Do they all create the same things? People that are shy can open up to their hearts more I think. Yes. It becomes safe because it’s…
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Invoke Eros
So Eros, what should we do with it? Invoke it? Yes. Centre in it. Live for the love of life itself. But don’t go kissing cops like in that “Love Potion Number 9” song. True, and that itself isn’t Eros. That is just foolishness. Eros without intoxication has wisdom to it. Are there such things as love…
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Speak to His Heart
Eros and logos, passion and reason, should be married in the psyche, in the mind. Mind unrooted in passion can justify hideous behaviour as being logical. Passion unconnected to reason lacks any expressive power, and thus loses its transformative potential. The Gorgon is the avatar of the venomous quality of reason. Once bitten by a cold line…
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Need for Catharsis
You have Eros for your writing, passionate love, an intimate relationship with it. It is a part of you, no? Yes, it is. One can have Eros for their relationship or for a special class of experience. They can have it for a hobby though those usually need to be freed even more than they…
Category: Eros
Eros is passion, passionate love, as distinct from the appetite of lust. Eros inspires music and art, literature, even mystical rapture.
Eros is the guide that reveals beauty, and not everything that is beautiful is also uplifting. I myself have felt crushed by the beauty of a world I felt I could take no real part in. This was still Eros.
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“Either take away, O Eros, a wish for love, or let me be loved! Take away all desire, or satisfy it” Lucillius