Love and Emotion
Love and Emotion Love is more profound than emotion. The fundamental difference between the two is that love never causes pain, whereas emotion creates all the problems in the world. Emotion is the mind’s concept of love, which is conditioned by the feelings generated by the self-interest of the person. The difficulty is that, as human beings, we are raised from birth primed for emotional conflict as a consequence of our parents’ and society’s adherence to an emotional way of life. Emotion is personal, which means it only affects a particular person at any time and is therefore not universal. In other words, it’s subject to external influences which are always changing. Emotion has no power of endurance, whereas love is an impersonal state and not subject to the caprice of outer forces. The mass of emotion gathered in time is imbued with an intelligence which arises from the consciousness inherent within the body. The nucleus of this emotional body soon establishes a position...