energy flow, principle, meaningfulness, component, phenomenon, difficulties,
Thus Spinoza arrives at the statement that virtue and power are one and the same. Envy, jealousy, ambition, any kind of greed are passion; love is an action, the practice of a human power, which can be practiced only in freedom and never as the result of a compulsion.
Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a "standing in," not a "falling for." In the most general way, the active character of love can be dscribed by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving.(The Art of Loving p.20~21)
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