![]() One day, we will all require the charity of others. ![]() Anyone can express an interest in perfection, to love is to devote an active charity towards the mistakes and aberrations. Love isn’t about an admiration for strength, it’s about directing sympathy in a most unexpected direction: at what is messed up, lost and in pieces, and at what we might hate, resent and be frightened of. Love means, above anything else, benevolence and gentleness towards what is failed, disgraced, broken, unappealing, angry and foul in other people and in ourselves. Here would be seven possible ingredients in Love redefined: We might require a new philosophy of love, in effect, a powerful secular religion of love. The most convincing discussion of love in the West came from Jesus of Nazareth, which has been unfortunate, given how easy it is to overlook everything he had to say once you don’t ‘believe’. ![]() We talk a lot of love of course, but generally in terms of a dizzying rapture lasting a few months focused on someone’s beauty, intelligence and strength. ![]() The world is sick for a surprisingly modest-sounding reason: we don’t understand love – and yet we are rather convinced that we do. ![]()
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