LOVE KNOWS




Sometimes we like people because we don’t know them.

Sometimes we dislike people because we don’t know them.

Like and dislike can be based on lack of knowledge.

That’s why ignorance can be blissful.

Just as it can be dangerously deceitful.

Ignorance can be (misinformed) love and trust.

Lack of awareness can be seen as boldness.

True love is based on true knowledge.

I repeat: love must know. Love is not ignorant.

Love is based on precise, accurate knowledge.

Love is not foolishly blind but can overlook flaws.

The metaphorical blindness of love is not complete oblivion, careless oversight or dysfunction-enabling negligence. 

Rather, it is the choice of commitment not to allow shortcomings to overshadow or eclipse strengths. 

To not throw away the baby with the bathwater.

For you to truly love a person, you must know the good and the bad about the person and still truly care about them and desire the best for them. 

Seek self-knowledge and self-understanding.

Also, seek to know and understand people.

That way you will have patience and empathy with people who are genuine but struggling or growing.

That way you will also not give certain access, trust and privileges to those who are unreliable.

In conclusion, don’t let ignorance be the basis for your loving or not loving a person. 

That’s low-level thinking and mental attitude.

Instead, let true knowledge of true instrinsic value (beyond the trauma-induced dysfunction) lead your love and be the foundation for your love posture.

Check to see if there is gold beneath the dross.

Another way to say it is: it takes love to see value.

So if I’m not seeing a person’s value even when they do good, it likely means that I don’t love them.

True knowledge is the foundation of true love and true faith, or the lack of these qualities thereof.



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