Community ConnectionsRick: WTS Martha Ashby Carr Associate Professor of Christian Ethics and Public Theology
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Favorite Love QuotationsThere were two readings at our wedding."True union, or love proper, exists only between living beings who are alike in power and thus in one another's eyes living beings from every point of view; in no respect is either dead for the other.  This genuine love excludes all oppositions.  It is not the understanding, whose relations always leave the manifold of related terms as a manifold and whose unity is always a unity of opposites.  It is not reason either, because reason sharply opposes its determining power to what is determined.  Love neither restricts or is restricted; it is not finite at all.  It is a feeling, yet not a single feeling.  A single feeling is only a part and not the whole of life; the life present in a single feeling dissolves its barriers and drives on till it disperses itself in the manifold of feelings with a view to finding itself in the entirety of the manifold." -- G.W.F. Hegel, Fragment on "Love"“A day or two after my love pronouncement, now feral with vulnerability, I sent you the passage from Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes in which Barthes describes how the subject who utters the phrase ‘I love you’ is like ‘the Argonaut renewing his ship during its voyage without changing its name.’ Just as the Argo’s parts may be replaced over time but the boat is still called the Argo, whenever the lover utters the phrase ‘I love you,’ its meaning must be renewed by each use, as ‘the very task of love and of language is to give to one and the same phrase inflections which will be forever new.’” -- Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts