Awesome topic, I have a somewhat metaphysical view on love and emotion in general. The way I see it, emotions are vibrations of our personal energy. Which would make sense when taking into account that different emotional states of mind produce different colored auras for those who believe in that sort of thing. I can easily see the chemical interactions that take place with feelings of love being a product of the means... a transliteration of energy to tangible stimuli, if you will.

Emotions are real, in my opinion, and extremely powerful. And love is by far the most powerful of them all. One year when D.C. was once again the murder capital, 100 Zen Buddhist monks went there to meditate upon feelings of love, compassion, peace and serenity. The murder rate dropped that year by some 17%. That is fucking phenomenal, and if that isnt a witness to the tangible effect of emotion, then I dont know what is.

I love all of humanity... I have so much love, you would think it would be unbearable, however the nature of love is quizzical in that manner. It seems the more you love, and the more people you love, the easier it is, and the more love is returned. However with such intense emotions comes the risk of opposing forces. Evil and hatred is something that I have struggled with my entire life, as I have always been extremely intense.

The difference between love and hatred is so powerful that when confronted by extreme examples, you have no choice but to acknowledge their existence. When I am filled with infinite love, I feel almost as if I am extracting power and energy from the very air that surrounds me, as if the space around me is permeated by it. I can almost feel it flow through me, and then out again, to be recycled and reconstituted.

Evil is another story. During times in my life when I was feeling very hateful, I allowed it to get out of my control for periods. Its a different sort of powerful feeling. Instead of a warm energy flowing into you, and flowing out to those you love, it is like a negative. A nothingness. Analagous to how cold is the absense of heat energy, hate is the absense of love energy. A void with enough gravity to suck all emotion into yourself, only for it to be dispersed into nothingness. The power that I feel when filled with hatred is much more reckless, but also much more tangibly immediate. Which I guess would explain its easy seduction. I scare myself when I allow it to get out of hand like that, so I have nearly admonished the feeling from my cortex. However, I cannot let go of it just yet, for I know in the near future, I will need to use it for the greater good. Im just not sure how..

Wow..... A simple question and related responses has produced some buried feelings...

phenomenal..