Monday, February 15, 2010

The Language of Love

"Ai," the traditional Chinese character for love consists of a heart (middle) inside of "accept," "feel," or "perceive," which shows a graceful emotion. It can also be interpreted as a hand offering ones heart to another hand.”

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“The concept of Ai was developed by the Chinese philosopher Mozi…Mozi, by contrast, believed people in principle should care for all people equally. Mohism stressed that rather than adopting different attitudes towards different people, love should be unconditional and offered to everyone without regard to reciprocation, not just to friends, family and other Confucian relations.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love#Chinese_and_other_Sinic_cultures 

I tried to find which part of the character consists of the accept, feel or perceive, but all that kept coming up was the love character. The Japanese characater for love comes up as the same Chinese symbol. They must all realize that love is all inclusive with accepting and feeling with the heart. Smart people they are.

Love: English
Amore: Italian
Amour: French
Amor: Spanish & Portuguese

In other languages love can be said to be transalated into different versions of "more". Everyone must believe that we all need more love!

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