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213 - The Divine Comedy: Love in Heaven and in Hell

The Symbolic World

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The Trinity of Love

True love is the capacity to both be fully one with that which is loved, while letting that thing completely exist outside of you. In the trinity, that is what you find. You find basically a kind of self emptying love in which the different persons of the trinity completely give themselves to the other. So this description of god, ultimately, this is what it's when we say, god is love,. It's not an arbitrary thing, rea its an actual description of how god, or how the source of all things, animates our experience, animates everything that we participate in um.

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