Lugh at Dunlewey Lake from bennybulb on Flickr
Dún Lúiche (Meaning the fort of Lú, the celtic god of Light) . The Poisoned Glen gets its name from many legends including one which cliams that lú (Lugh) killed the evil “Balor of the evil eye ” here by driving a sword through his evil eye that poisoned the glen, since then no bird has ever been heard, no fish go up the Glens stream from an abundant lake
To misquote Carl Sagan, there are billions and billions of stars out there. Looking up at the sky, we can see them painted across our sky, millions of visible pinpoints of light that show us an infinitesimal piece of the universe’s beauty and fill us with awe.
Each star itself is something beautiful, each with its own story. Each shines out with its own light, some steadily, some barely, some blowing themselves up. Some we can’t see, because they’ve become monstrous gravity wells that tests the physical laws of our universe. Some create beams so intense they can kill even here on earth.
Despite there being so many, we consider each one uniquely beautiful and poignant.
There are billions of stars, and billions of people.
Why should we believe the uniqueness and beauty of each person to be any different than that we hold for the stars?
What is love? Tough question. So, an easier question: what are the physical aspects of love?
When you love someone or something, your brain uses a portion of the energy available to your body to (at the very least) remember it. Of the billions of bits of information available to be learned and remembered, nerve cells are set aside and energy consumed as your brain sets up a neural pattern that will recognize the one you love, and incorporates your love of this person into your physical being.
Having your neural network slowly altered, your thought patterns will flow along these new neural pathways (just as they do with all the other neural pathways). As a result, some thoughts will dwell on the one you love. More energy and time is spent focusing on your loved one; in a sense, you have given a small bit of your life in reverence to the one you love.
Thinking often begets action, and always colors it. Loving someone thus affects the energy used by your entire physical being (which furthermore affects your life). Because your actions are affected, your immediate surroundings are affected as well. As everything ultimately affects everything else (even if it is solely through increasing the entropy in the universe), your love will nudge the balance of the universe.
All this, just because you love someone.
So, what is the physical aspect of love? It is burning energy to reinforce a relationship to something outside of your physical being. It is incorporating that of another into yourself, and projecting that back outward from yourself.
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