{"id":1141,"date":"2006-02-03T15:12:27","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T07:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2006-02-03T15:12:27","modified_gmt":"2006-02-03T07:12:27","slug":"face-of-love-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/face-of-love-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Face of Love (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A thought that came to me yesterday and i thought good to be put here that i can come back again later or ppl may add in their insight.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite a long story to come to this thought, but it&#8217;s something that i think never to discuss or think of or trying to understand. It&#8217;s about <em>Love.<\/em> For one reason, because to me love is amazing &amp; divine. It&#8217;s beyond human&#8217;s capacity to understand it. What we can understand abt it may not be the full of it, and something that&#8217;s not understood fully is as good as half thing. And to know half truth is a waste to me.<\/p>\n<p>But nevertheless it&#8217;s something that might be helpful to see about Love. That&#8217;s why i give title <em>Face of Love. El <\/em>told me that human&#8217;s love is sellfish, but i said if a breakout cause a heartache that&#8217;s love for you feel the pain. How can it be sellfish?<\/p>\n<p>Later when i thought more about it, i think i&#8217;ve to agree that human&#8217;s love is sellfish. You choose someone with a thought that you may gain something. And the pain bcs of breakout could also the pain bcs you&#8217;re losing out something.\u00a0Isn&#8217;t it\u00a0sellfish &amp; self-centered?<\/p>\n<p>How then to love unselfishly? Can we love unselfishly? Could it be still called <em>Love<\/em>? How will it look like? How does it look like? Unselfish love?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thought that came to me yesterday and i thought good to be put here that i can come back again later or ppl may add in their insight. It&#8217;s quite a long story to come to this thought, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/face-of-love-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[224,310],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-singlehood","tag-love","tag-thots"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1376,"url":"https:\/\/potterdreams.com\/clay\/look-intently-with-light\/","url_meta":{"origin":1141,"position":0},"title":"Look Intently with Light","author":"clay","date":"February 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Tonight I cleaned up the dining table, then finished up the last bowl of rice. 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