Mashup

Love 
    and it's ability to shape us through shaping the world.

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But this is what young people are so often and so disastrously wrong in doing: they (who by their very nature are impatient) fling themselves at each other when love takes hold at them, they scatter themselves, just as they are, in all their messiness, disorder, bewilderment...: And what can happen then? What can life do with this heap of half-broke things that they call their communion and that they would like to call their happiness if that were possible and their future? And So each of them lose himself for the sake of another person, and loses the other, and many others who still wanted to come.

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Pop Culture ruins what love can be...

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Love, something that seems to be a motif of human trial and tribulation. But this wasn't always the case, we didn't always chose for love, our people did not begin with it.  Arranged marriages and secular choices were made for families without their opinion on who they married.  There was no idea of love not concept of it for our existence. Truly, where does this love come from.  Love is the chemical reaction in our body. Love is the cellular interaction of serotonin and dopamine in our nervous system. Love is a lie, its not something free and unlike anything different from other animals. Love's power to chase, to move, to shape the universe is not a value of its own. Its a characteristic we give to love because those who are great explain their greatness through love.

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The great Tao flows everywhere.
All things are born from it,

yet it doesn't create them.

It pours itself into its work,

yet it makes no claim.

It nourishes infinite worlds,

yet it doesn't hold on to them.

Since it is merged with all things

and hidden in their hearts,

it can be called humble.

Since all things vanish into it

and it alone endures,

it can be called great.

It isn't aware of its greatness;

thus it is truly great.

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Our lives are a constant pursuit for an answer, for an end. We rush to finish and then later complain for the passage of time. Love defies this. Love exists only in the process. A feeling that shares and guides. Books written with love, to clarify not about love but with love in each sentence of its creation, give unlimited accents or how human nature can be glorious & beautiful in all of its existence. Struggle and suffrage has been there for all people in all places but we live with ideas of escaping this pain. We search for it. We must open our minds and give light to places there have been none. Only when we give this light, only when we take a chance, only when we don't hold back, then we will love & hate will leave our lives. Despair will vanish into the nothingness and humanity can flourish. 

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A whole world will envelope you, the happiness, the abundance, the inconceivable vastness of a world. Live for a while i these books, learn from them what you feel is worth learning, but most of all love them.

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6 types of love

Eros

A passionate physical and emotional love based 

on aesthetic enjoyment; stereotype of romantic love

Ludus 

A love that is played as a game or sport; 

conquest; may have multiple partners at once

Storge

An affectionate love that slowly develops

 from friendship, based on similarity

Pragma 

A love that is driven by

 the head, not the heart

Mania

obsessive love; experience great emotional highs and lows;

 very possessive and often jealous lovers

Agape

Selfless altruistic love; spiritual;

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When we read the bible we must continually bear in mind the period it was written in. A 'critical' reading , such as the one he proposed, revealed a number of inconsistencies in the text. But beneath the surface of the Scriptures in the New Testament is Jesus, who could well be called God's mouthpiece. The teachings of Jesus therefore represented a liberation from the orthodoxy of Judaism. Jesus preached a 'religion of reason' which valued love higher than all else.

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Explore the workings of the world

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Sometimes ideas are just to strung out to be formed. We write and write but accomplish nothing. The ideals of sentences overlapping create structure but growth is meaningless. I sit here to discuss the growth of myself but nothing occurs. Words are just sounds if not given meaning. Feeling is the only way something can be transmitted. If you can not display the emotion from one medium to another a human, no matter what level they are at, will not be able to understand. Depth, love, existence. They are just words that factor out of a nothingness. Give love and you shall discover life. 

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Sometimes we don't get love. Sometimes we look in the wrong places.

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Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.




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stand with your lover on the ending earth-

and while a(huge which by which huger than

huge)whoing sea leaps to greenly hurl snow  

suppose we could not love,dear;imagine

ourselves like living neither nor dead these

(or many thousand hearts which don't and dream

or many million minds which sleep and move)

blind sands,at pitiless the mercy of

time time time time time

-how fortunate are you and i,whose home

is timelessness:we who have wandered down

from fragrant mountains of eternal now  

to frolic in such mysteries as birth 

and death a day(or maybe even less)

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I have grown to question authority but learned to accept the things I could not possibly change. My patience is still week and a finite source but that patience is a sea compared to the stream it was in the beginning. Being patient is a step, a step in life we all must acquire to go from youth to mature adult. 

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Sometimes our love is all we have

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And if it frightens and torments you to think of childhood and of the simplicity and silence that  accompanies it, because you no longer believe in God, who appears in it everywhere, then ask yourself, [...] whether you have really lost God. Isn't it much truer to say that you have never possessed him?

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In the land we live in we can pretty safely say that a woman is no longer property. She is an equal with man. Standing equal ground and competing for equality. But for most of the world that isn't the case. Women still make less than men in equal jobs and still deal with sexual tension in many of the work places. Thats only in westernized nations. In many undeveloped nations women are nothing. They are treated poorly and not loved. Love. Thats why we need. That what world need. As one people we should stand up for each other. For humans as a whole. But when that happens such as with political, religious and social leaders, they usually end up dead. Why? Why can't we let love in? 

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 The next set of images are graphic. 

 This is real. 

 This happens. 

  

I unfortunately can not include all the images but each speaks for a woman in need.

These women would victims of acid poured on them.

This is a result of resisiting forms male oppression.

There is no love for them in their homes. 

Bring love.

Bring help.

Bring justice to those in third world countries.

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Homesickness, in other words, is the distance, that we put between who we are and who we used to be, between our present and our past. And we are lost only when we have lost our dead, when we exile them from our lives, because the city where they live is us

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The fact that people have in this sense been cowardly has done infinite harm to life; the experiences that are called "apparitions," the whole so-called "spirit world," death, all these Things that are so closely related to us, have through our daily defensiveness been so entirely pushed out of life that the senses with which we might have been able to grasp them have atrophied. To say nothing of God. But the fear of the inexplicable has not only impoverished the reality of the individual; it has also narrowed the relationship between one human being and another.

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The thoughts that are washed along with the current of past tradition, as well as the material conditions prevailing at the time, help to determine how you think. You can therefore never claim that any particular thought is correct for ever and ever. But the thought can be corrected from where you stand.

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We can't just wait for things to happen. If we wait nothing gets done. People move backwards and fall behind. We lose the progress and fail at all that we have achieved. We need to push forwards. We need to do it for ourselves and for those around us. Progress is not just building ones self for the interest of themselves. That is mere selfishness and will not accomplish anything for anyone. But working to be successful in the chance to benefit those around one one life, that will result in progress. The actions need to take care of a society lie with the actions to take care of  neighbors and strangers. A stranger is still a person. We need to be more helpful. More outgoing. More for the cause of humanity. 

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But even so, I think that you will not have to remain without a solution if you trust in Things that are like the ones my eyes are now resting upon. If you trust in Nature, in what is simple in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor: then everything will become easier for you, more coherent and somehow more reconciling, not in your conscious mind perhaps, which strays behind, astonished, but in your innermost awareness, awkwardness and knowledge. 

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This idea of love has been created by people to make society work. To make our lives feel better and, in the end, have us be content with ourselves on approaching our deathbeds. Because as society with people living longer they need something so that life doesn't tarnish or spoil. There is something to us, to everything, that makes this love seem worthy. This love that seems to effect our soul. Without love our souls become bitter. They close themselves off from others and a vile nature grows within. Although love itself isn't real, isn't a magic that runs through our body, isn't a predestined force, it still has great power and a greater impact on humans as a whole.

1. Rilke, Rainer Maria. Letter's To A Young Poet. New York: New York, Modern Library, 2001. (70)
2. Tumblr.com
3. Reflection 12 - Nigel Howard
4. Tao Te Ching Written by Lao-tzu From a translation by S. Mitchell
5. Reflection 7 - Nigel Howard
6. Rilke, Rainer Maria. (17)
7. Greek Language of Love
8. Gaarder, Jostein. Sophie's World.  New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1994. (245)
9. Threadless - The Gift Of Knowledge
10. Reflections 15 
11. Be A Star - The Jezabels
12. Rilke, Rainer Maria. (43)
13. Stand With Your Lover On The Ending Earth - e.e. cummings
14. Reflections 11
15. Lana Winters - via tumblr - American Horror Story
16. Rilke, Rainer Maria. (59)
17. Reflections 13
18. hlaurajul Faces of Islam
19. Wiggins, Marianne. The Shadow Catcher. New York: New York. (272) 
20. Rilke, Rainer Maria. (98)
21. Gaarder, Jostein. (359)
22. Reflections 4
23. Rilke, Rainer Maria (33)
24. John Green - via tumblr
25. Reflections 12