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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881 – 1955)

Magnetic Heart

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16 Comments CherryPie on Sep 4th 2011

16 Responses to “Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week”

  1. JD says:
    September 4, 2011 at 6:44 pm

    “the idea of love as the basis for living your life is terrifying, it challenges the ego”

    can’t remember where I found that…
    I might even have written it myself in a rare moment of lucidity :)

    • CherryPie says:
      September 4, 2011 at 11:01 pm

      I like that quote :-) It gives me pause for thought.

      Love comes easily to me, it is one of my basic instincts. I find something to love in most people and most things and even the most extreme situations.

      But what is love?

  2. Bernard says:
    September 4, 2011 at 7:00 pm

    Of course, the few of us who have never found this elusive ‘energy’, couldn’t of course comment.
    But I do, however, like the idea that love is an ‘energy’?
    I believe us engineers define energy as “moving a force through a distance”.
    The mind boggles – does it not, at the ‘force of love’ moving? :o
    Oh, I don’t know.
    Perhaps that is where the expression –
    “Did the Earth move for you” came from? :)

    • CherryPie says:
      September 4, 2011 at 11:12 pm

      I see love in everthing you do and the way you interact with your friends.

      I believe us engineers define energy as “moving a force through a distance”.
      The mind boggles – does it not, at the ‘force of love’ moving?

      I think love does all of that ;-)

      Carrying on from my comment to JD “What is Love”.

      Love is all around us within the very fabric of nature.

      I think that brings us round to your comment “Did the Earth move for you”

      :-)

  3. Andrew says:
    September 4, 2011 at 8:50 pm

    Most powerful? It’s got a powerful rival in Hate. Powers about even, I’d say, unfortunately, based on the evidence. Everything cancels to nothing, in the end, based on the physics. Plus and minus in equal amounts leaves you with zero.

    Maybe I should try the Happy Pills…

    • CherryPie says:
      September 4, 2011 at 11:20 pm

      Yes everything has an equal and opposite, there has to be a balance. The laws of physics and the old philosophers teachings all come to that conclusion.

      But by observation I see that Love seems to be more powerful force that hate…

  4. MTG says:
    September 4, 2011 at 9:33 pm

    In matters of love the heart never consults the mind, often to the long regret of both.

  5. jams o donnell says:
    September 5, 2011 at 6:49 pm

    A beautiful quote and a beautiful image Cherie!

  6. jameshigham says:
    September 5, 2011 at 8:52 pm

    I think JD’s a poet and he don’t know it. :)

  7. Marcie says:
    September 6, 2011 at 12:57 pm

    Love..love…love this! So inspiring!!!

  8. Ellee says:
    September 6, 2011 at 4:28 pm

    And long may this continue to be the case ….