🍀LOVE'S PARADOXICAL DEMAND -139

Hi, I am JOE and I write on "Mindful Productivity & Cerebral Happiness". My endeavour is to share life lessons, some thoughts, quotes & links to articles/podcasts/books, I discover during the week.

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During the week I was going through the work of ‘ Leo Tolstoy’ on a subject of ‘'LIFE’, wherein he writes on love’s paradoxical demands. One of his saying particularly stuck with me -

“Future love does not exist. Love is a present activity only. The man who does not manifest love in the present has no love.”

Leo began tussling with the grandest questions of existence from an early age. As a young man, he struggled through his search for himself, learned the hard way about the moral weight of immoral motives and confronted the meaning of human existence.

It has generated enough interest for me and then I explored a fine work of Esther Perel in her book Mating in Captivity — one of the most lucid and liberating perspectives on love written in the past century. Esther Perel explores how to integrate these paradoxical needs into the wholeness of a fully satisfying love. I complemented it with philosopher Alain Badiou on how we fall and stay in love and Stendhal on why we fall out of it.

If it has generated enough interest in you then you can too explore these.

Take good care & enjoy reading your weekly dose of cerebral happiness! And if you liked it then do not hesitate

Joe

🍀-Snippets of Value for the Week

1. WHAT I’M READING - Mating In Captivity

   by Eshter Perel

2. I am reading a blog on POWER OF PROGRESS.