Upon finishing Ortega y Gasset's book, I feel enthralled to have just unfolded the author's thoughts concerning one of the most unfathomable emotions Upon finishing Ortega y Gasset's book, I feel enthralled to have just unfolded the author's thoughts concerning one of the most unfathomable emotions we can experience: love. Among the many concepts, Ortega explains and relates the way love correlates with passion, sexual instinct, eroticism, etc. Romantic love has two essential ingredients: enchantment — a feeling of being enchanted by another being who produces complete "illusion" in us; and surrender — a sense of being absorbed to the core of our being.
Why, as a general thesis, should we not flatter ourselves that our love(s) is a manifestation of our concealed beings?
It leaves the possibility of revealing its truth through reality, as experienced by each of us. Through an attentive interpretation of the text in correlation with my personal life, I mainly relate the way the lover carries the beloved at all times with great care, devotion, and admiration, independently of painful circumstances. My spiritual self yearns for his arms and touch, for he is the one who gracefully completes my spirit with such a delicate embrace....more
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