Truth is cosmically total: synergetic. Verities are generalized principles stated in semimetaphorical terms. Verities are differentiable. But love is omniembracing, omnicoherent, and omni-inclusive, with no exceptions. Love, like synergetics, is nondifferentiable, i.e., is integral.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Truth is cosmic and differer but love is all-inclusive and integral without exceptions.
- In plain terms
- Truth has parts but love includes everything without exception.
- What can you take from it?
- Love is the only principle that includes everything completely.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is love the only universal principle?
- How does love differ from truth?
Another view
The claim that love is nondifferentiable is poetic but logically ambiguous.
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