Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Harmonizing Evolutionary Convergence

Glossary menus

leubh-

PIE base ‘to care, desire; love’.

Other derivatives include believe ‘hold dear, love’, belief, leave ‘permission to do something’, indicating pleasure or approval, furlough ‘leave of absence’, livelong ‘whole, entire’, of period of time, from Old English lēof ‘dear, beloved’, and libido, from Latin libīdō ‘pleasure, desire’.

[Pokorny *leubh-, pp. 683–684.]

love

Unlike English, the ancient Greeks had four words for love: storgē, philia, erōs, and agapē, which C. S. Lewis called ‘Affection’, ‘Friendship’, ‘Eros’, and ‘Charity’ in his classic work The Four Loves.

Love

It is important to distinguish Love, which has no opposite, from love, as it manifests in human relationships. For, as the Sufi poet Rumi beautifully put it, “Love is the sea of not-being and there intellect drowns.” So, as many say today, perhaps more cognitively than experientially, Love is the Divine Essence we all share.