Love is the driving force behind new creation

 Since last time, I've been thinking about the fact that the Japanese words "ai" (love) and "koi" (romantic love) are both expressed using the same word, "LOVE." What exactly is love? 


To love means to love someone so much that you can't help it. If that person is of the opposite sex, it's simply love. But it can also be the same sex, a friend, parent, sibling, son, daughter, or any other human or non-human entity, even a thing or even God.


At that moment, the other person's joy feels like your own joy, their sadness feels like your own sadness, your happiness becomes my happiness, and your unhappiness becomes my unhappiness. You and I are one.


You are a part of me, and I am a part of you. You and I are inseparable. Bound as one by the bond of fate, forever one.


The desire to be inseparable and one with oneself.


The most obvious example of this is love, so perhaps in English, both love and romance are simply referred to as LOVE. In love, there is a real force that makes us want to become one physically, but the fact that new life is born from this is another function of love that is highly symbolic and suggestive.


When we say we love God in our faith, we mean we want to become one with Him. That's why we read psalms that talk about falling in love with God, and why becoming a nun is sometimes referred to as "becoming the bride of Christ." I guess loving God means falling in love with God. So, after all, both are "LOVE."


And what happens when you become one with God? Do you go to heaven in ecstasy and that's it?


In true love, new life is born, right?


So, when we become one with God, something is sure to be born. Surely we are reborn as new life.


Even if it's not God, when we love something, and that thing loves us back—in other words, when love is fulfilled, something new and wonderful is born.


When you and I become one, it's not the end. From this, something new and more wonderful is born, becoming a new beginning. This new beginning, full of life, grows into an independent entity, and the countless new beings born in this way fall in love, become one, and give birth to yet another new and even more wonderful being: life.

This new life is not limited to biological life. Something is born from every love. Something wonderful is born. And what is born from love has life, even if it is not biological. Love transcends the category of living things and gives birth to existence itself.



The eternal cycle of union and creation through love.


Following the guidance of love and mercy.


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