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• 30/04/2008 @ 01:18 UMxx said

  

  Roze, I think this is so true when the difference is based on love. Love can be transforming in so many ways - but when someone wants to make a difference in the world and is not based on love then often the world often just gets more mixed up. - and sometimes us with it :) UMx

• 30/04/2008 @ 05:56 roze said

  

  very wise UM - i believe love to be the strongest transformative power within our lives - and yet it is the most dangerous - perhaps that is its attraction. I have yet to see a performance review that looks at the love people bring to their work and their vision. At the same time i have seen the inability to let go of what you love - to give others space to bring their own emotional talents to the table - destroy organisations and communities too.

• 30/04/2008 @ 09:01 UMxx said

  

  I wonder if that (the latter) is really love or ego?

• 30/04/2008 @ 09:12 roze said

  

  Hm - or a bit of both?

• 01/05/2008 @ 03:48 UMxx said

  

  can love be destructive?

• 01/05/2008 @ 07:26 roze said

  

  If it is not requited or in some way damaged it can be dangerously so in my experience. Do you feel not?

• 01/05/2008 @ 08:05 UMxx said

  

  Yes I guess so - unrequited love can be such - I'm wondering about damaged love - I'll keep thinking because my first reaction is that this is love transformed to something else.

• 01/05/2008 @ 08:29 roze said

  

  If there is still at root then it may be transfigured rather than transformed?

• 01/05/2008 @ 09:13 UMxx said

  

  Transfigured or Transformed it is no longer the same - can it still be love - perhaps it can be some of the elements of love or even the habits of love. I feel like quoting that 70's thing - love is pure - love is - I don't know the rest of it.

  I might be a bit soft

• 01/05/2008 @ 23:15 roze said

  

  I hear this yet i believe transfigure - something that changes shape - is different from transform - something that changes its essential nature. One is like a chaemeleon (sp?) that changes its colour whilst not changing what it is whereas the other is like a pupa that becomes a moth.

• 02/05/2008 @ 00:33 UMxx said

  

  Yes I agree that is the difference between transfiguration and transformation. But, what I am not sure of is, if love changes it's shape - it's form to something that is no longer recognisable as love ( from an external observation) then how can it still be love. A chameleon is still recognisable as a chameleon - only the colour is different. I think transfiguration is about a far more significant change. - but I am still pondering on the degrees of transfiguration of love and where it can be still recognised as love and when it might be held as love but no longer love. I think I am being extreme in the way I am looking at this.