Love and Truth

There is an essential difference between truth and love, and it is the opposite of what most of us used to believe:

Truth can never exist alone. It is a joint effort between at least one person who expresses it and one person who understands it. Sometimes the effort is greater on the side of the one who expresses it, sometimes on the side of the one who understands it, and sometimes appearances are deceptive!

Which leads us to love, which can exist, not of course in isolation but always exclusively on its own foundations. To love is a completely sovereign decision, perhaps the only sovereign decision accessible to us.

Thus, expressing (or “doing”) a truth is an act of love, and understanding it is also an act of love. These 2 free acts are necessary for the truth to exist. But love began before, and above all, it does not depend, on either side, on any condition. She is free and sovereign.

(Inspired from Alain Badiou)