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Question: To love is to reject philosophy and spiritual pursuit!?
I might be love-shy!. A psychologist might be able to point it out!. But sometimes i feel the moment I hold my lover's hand, I have joined the universal crowd!. To say thing flattering never appeals to my soul!. Sometimes i feel i'd rather stand in a corner and smoke alone then to have someone in my arm and try to serenade her!. I am a philosophy major, which always obliges me to cling to my spiritual instead of material existence!. I agree with Schopenhauer that to reject our sexual impulse is to deny our will to live!. The desire to love always seems to be the highest goal of human life!. If nobody fell in love, there wouldn't be a thing called human race!. I don't want to lose the philosophical part of me, but to reject love seems to me an insurmountable task!. Anyone have a clue!? Www@QuestionHome@Com


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I don't see that you have to choose between the immaterial and material!. You are a spiritual, mental, and physical being!. If there is nothing to exercise your mind you will go insane; if you have not enough food, you will starve to death; and if you have nothing to nurture your soul, you will either become depraved, or hollow!. The best life is a balanced life!.

Perhaps what you need is a lover who you connect with on a spiritual or mental level!. As for me, I've accepted that I will never fully connect with my love mentally, but I think that with time we can connect spiritually, and that that will be enough!. Two out of three isn't bad, eh!?

I don't feel that people 'fall' into love, much as I don't feel that people 'make' us mad!. Those things are reactions, and sometimes some people provoke strong emotions, but ultimatly we are rational creatures who are free to make choices!. My love isn't perfect, but niether am I, so I feel that it's worth the effort to continue the relationship!.

I hope that you find what you are looking for, and that it is satisfying!.

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So who said love is not Spiritual! Lust is physical, it has no philosophical or spiritual value, it is simple red blooded chemically induced state, where the body is the instrument!. Love however is spiritual, you know "Soul mate" and stuff!. One connects to the inner being rather than the outer!. One could be fat, black, ugly, handicapped, yet if two soul connect in thought and Spirit, it is love and it is spiritual! Lust last until the next good thing, love however lasts a lifetime, if it is true and spiritual! Take love of god!. Priests stay true to God, both in body mind and Spirit!. That is love for god that makes them sacrifice the other important parts of life, They forsake, pleasure, riches, and whatnot just for the "sake of love for god"
So don't worry about being spiritual (and if you are spiritual, you are automatically philosophical), and falling in love!. Both offer the same kind of ecstasy! Remember God + Love and Love + God, and god is a spiritual experience rather than physical!.Www@QuestionHome@Com