A friend told me last week that the English 'love' has exactly the same etymological root as 'lief' as in 'belief' (so also 'beloved'). Faith and love linked.
Brings to mind Marcel Mauss's essay The Gift. He studied 'primitive' societies and found that the giving of a gift established such a bond of obligation & reciprocity that such giving was dreaded.
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Did you also know that, in Swedish,
Married = Poisoned?
Perhaps the Scandinavians are wiser than anyone has previously thought :-)
A friend told me last week that the English 'love' has exactly the same etymological root as 'lief' as in 'belief' (so also 'beloved').
Faith and love linked.
That's why I made that connexion in my first written post on this blog "Loving is simply being part of this process – believing whole-heartedly."
Brings to mind Marcel Mauss's essay The Gift. He studied 'primitive' societies and found that the giving of a gift established such a bond of obligation & reciprocity that such giving was dreaded.
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