Love kind

The first stage is to believe that there is only one kind of love. The middle stage is to believe that there are many kinds of love and that the Greeks had a different word for each of them. The last stage is to believe is there is only one kind of love. The unabashed "eros" of lovers, the symphathetic "philia" of friends, agape giving itself away freely no less for the murderer than for his victim (the King James Version translates it as charity) - these are all varied manifestations of a single reality. To lose yourself in another's arms, or in another's company, or in suffering for all who suffer, including the ones who inflict suffering upon you- to lose yourself in such ways is to find yourself. Is what it's all about. Is what love is. Of all powers, love is the most powerful and most powerless... It is the most powerful because it alone can conquer that final and most impregnable stronghold which is the human heart... It is the most powerless because it can do nothing except by consent.