EP 21: Imagery of Vision in the novels of James Joyce
Pathways with Joseph Campbell
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Love Is Born of the Eyes and the Heart
Dante comes out of the tradition of the troubadours and in the discussion of love by the troubadour, a definition is achieved. Love is born of the eyes and the heart, which is exactly what Dante said. Eros is really the lure and appeal of the organs to the organs in the dark. And if it is a gentle heart, that is to say, a heart capable, not simply of lust but of love, that heart is waken and love is born. This is specific. This is elite. This is for the gentle heart and it's got the eye. It is to a specifically personal experience, not an undifferentiated experience, that the beginning of
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