The Opposite of Love

Eckhart Tolle suggests that Love, in fact has NO opposite at all, but since we are incarnate and existing in time and space, we have to apply a dualistic structure to everything we wish to think about and inevitably, and incorrectly, we decide that Love has an opposite and that we are certain we know what love is. But thinking, itself, is a dualistic process that cannot conceive the true nature of love. What we think when we think of love is usually not love at all, but the limited ability of our dualistic nature to understand or encompass the concept of love within our thought process. The moment you say something is one thing, it immediately has an opposite. In the act of identifying something, you have created a thought and thoughts can only exist in the world of duality. So no matter what I say love is, the fact that I said it means that's not love. So if you can ignore for a moment that I am "saying" this, we might say what love is by saying what it is not. And therefore, Love is not thought, or even, technically, non-thought. If we can stop thinking, and even stop thinking about not thinking, all that is left is presence (again, according to Tolle). In that instant, the pathway to love is opened and there is love. In a way, you can say love is nothing, or no thing, it's not a thing because if it were it would have an opposite and would therefore not be love. In other words, the Tao that can be spoken is not the true Tao. Well, that was interesting. Not quite what I intended to say when I started typing, but there you go. . . ya never know what will happen when you start down a path . . :) Here's a quote from Tolle that states it much better: " . . . Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form. In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love. . . ." --Eckhart Tolle Sincerely, Zack