Love and Affection: A Metaphysical Excavation
What is love?
What is affection?
Let us explore them — through literature, philosophy, and myth. I have always been fascinated by the concept of affection. It is, perhaps, the most explored emotion in art and literature — the eternal muse of poets, painters, and philosophers alike.When I first heard Don Juan by Mozart — that opera of seductive rebellion — my eyes filled with tears. I was twenty-three then: young, feverishly alive, and stepping into the vast, trembling landscap…
The Faces of Light
Until lately, I had no face — none left to read the outer realm of my own.
There are faces that the sun remembers — not because they are beautiful,but because they believe in light.In their eyes burns a patient flame —the kind that refuses to die even in the coldest season of the soul.
I shouted all my life for the authenticity of the universe.How can we trust the bottom of the universeif we don't turn our face deep down into our own head?
Love, if it means anything, is thi…
