tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769237935430750989.post6969524073698691058..comments2024-02-09T23:01:58.528+00:00Comments on The Invisible Province: Cloning and Never Let Me GoUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769237935430750989.post-30744752330212192602011-03-11T07:35:25.936+00:002011-03-11T07:35:25.936+00:00I believe you are mistaken Fr Martin and you John,...I believe you are mistaken Fr Martin and you John,<br />"All love is self-surrender and self-fulfillment."<br />In a little exercise I swapped the word love for happiness and I would agree. Then I swapped the word love for God, and I did not. Love, as God can not be reduced to such a sentence. God is Love. God is omnipresent. We can not be fulfilled by self alone.Marienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769237935430750989.post-36703459754742495842011-03-02T23:35:29.360+00:002011-03-02T23:35:29.360+00:00I have just read the book, how terribly tragic. ...I have just read the book, how terribly tragic. Ishiguro's creative expertise, at allowing us to be witness to Kathy's unemotional observation of the three friends lives, is enough to make reading it an almost personal experience. Their homemade 'love' with all its disappointed expectations, running parallel to the coldness and austerity of the Hailsham childhood. The forced unreal cottage life with its questionable social mores. The soul less experimental sexual encounters and unfeeling promiscuity, whilst desperately wanting them to experience the beauty of truly deep unexplainable love, and the unchallenged accepted clinical completions all made for a warmth which only resided in an over bearing sadness. The characters yes all had souls, and did self-realise but we were somehow ambivalently both exposed to, and deprived of the sacredness of each life. Tragic. Chilling.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769237935430750989.post-51309381590687614682011-02-24T16:48:18.471+00:002011-02-24T16:48:18.471+00:00Got it!
We can not love if we do not surrender ou...Got it!<br /><br />We can not love if we do not surrender ourselves,<br />We can not be fulfilled if we do not love!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769237935430750989.post-63324194102646904952011-02-23T22:18:21.454+00:002011-02-23T22:18:21.454+00:00I have just seen the film.
"All love IS self-...I have just seen the film.<br />"All love IS self-surrender and self-fulfilment".<br /><br />Yours humblyJohn Dennynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769237935430750989.post-21251850880778009442011-02-20T11:51:06.641+00:002011-02-20T11:51:06.641+00:00The non reciprocal Love of self realisation and se...The non reciprocal Love of self realisation and self-surrender is equal to the deepest Love we continue to feel for a loved one after they have died and after we have finished grieving. It is a peaceful self satisfying happy Love that flows beyond the portal of all earthy senses and lays ever constant and wholesome in the core of our being.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769237935430750989.post-50840176046751902742011-02-19T12:11:40.232+00:002011-02-19T12:11:40.232+00:00Another tragic film. I recently saw the film cons...Another tragic film. I recently saw the film conspiracy of silence as well, your 5th paragraph could ring true for both films.<br /><br />LizAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769237935430750989.post-80395240458918607042011-02-18T10:01:35.955+00:002011-02-18T10:01:35.955+00:00Yes it is, but still this is not All love.
We can...Yes it is, but still this is not All love.<br /><br />We can only freely give love in self surrender or self-realisation, (to ones enemies or love with no return) because we are replenished and nourished by the most common reciprocal exchange of love. Or at base because of hope or reconciliation.<br /><br />When we are impoverished or under nourished in that common reciprocal love, it becomes very difficult to continuously give, unlike the ease of loving and the joy of being kind when we feel loved and love in abundance, then the well is endlessly replenished.John Dennynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769237935430750989.post-25908204746765063252011-02-18T08:30:09.866+00:002011-02-18T08:30:09.866+00:00I agree, John, that the reciprocity of love is an ...I agree, John, that the reciprocity of love is an essential element of the dynamism of love. The most common we experience love. However, I would also argue that the act of loving self-surrender (even when there is little or no chance of that love being returned, for example, with one's enemies) is also an act of self-fulfiment and self- realization.Fr Martin Bolandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12435449968609118810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-769237935430750989.post-47251707456259670462011-02-17T20:27:17.037+00:002011-02-17T20:27:17.037+00:00All love is self-surrender and self-fulfilment. ?
...All love is self-surrender and self-fulfilment. ?<br /><br />No it is not! Not in my life.<br /><br />You may have to convince your self of that, in order to satisfy your perspective. Having surrendered myself in love for others, love as a response of/from/ others fulfils my life.John Dennynoreply@blogger.com