the opposite side on the spectrum of love is abscence of love, i think. like heat - cold, light - dark. sounded backwards, love sounds like evol (evil).
All of the above can resolve to the opposite of love. When you love someone or something, you’re neither afraid of any indifference, fear, do not have any grief or judgmental towards that someone / something.
And as the opposite of all the above, love triumphs..
The more I think about it, the more I think fear is the opposite. When I feel unloving, it is due to fear. I don't have hate in my life anymore. But I do experience lack of love. idifference feels like the opposite to passion to me.
Hate. Opposites are two sides of the same coin. Hate is the dark side of love. While love can push us towards bliss and connection, hate is tied to shame. It’s a shadow we must face to understand our disconnection from the world.
I like all the answers here. This is my interpretation from the Law of Polarities but I think love is so complex all of these arguments make sense.
I do agree with that. Fear pushes us towards hate. It seems to me that fear and love can exist together, the more we let go of fear the more we can experience love. I think hate is what we transmute into love. And trust helps us to move in that direction, fear moves us the other way.
Makes sense. I feel like loving is our natural state. Love feels like nature and balance. You don't see hate in nature. But you do see fear. Interesting.
I agree. I don't think there is just one answer. It is just a word at the end of the day and we all have our own relationship with words. I do like to look at this as polarities though. And there is a shadow or opposite polarity to love. Whatever you want to call it.
I think it really depends on how you define love. That is a tricky one. Is it an action? Is it a state of being. Is it bigger than words. How do we define love?
Of course "fear". Without love people are afraid. With love fear disappears. This theme is too deep, Freud started investigation and modern phycology already got explanation why fear and love are opposite sides of the same thing.