Our Human survival depends on learning what “true love” is

Zsolt Hermann
1 min readFeb 24, 2022

Question from the Internet:

“What is that thing you think you are lacking and is common in others?”

We all lack the innate ability to truly love each other.

“True love” is a state, where the “lover” selflessly, unconditionally serves the “beloved”, disappearing in the desires, needs of the “beloved” only existing in order to fulfill those desires, needs of the other according to the viewpoint of the “beloved” while completely forgetting about oneself. Moreover the “beloved” is not someone I attract to instinctively, hormonally but I “love” another without any natural connection, attraction, above and against my natural, instinctive rejection, distaste.

Moreover, if it is “true love” I do not even care if the “beloved” knows what I am doing, what I am giving, my reward, my pleasure comes from the fact that I have the ability to serve and love without any conditions, without any reward or recognition.

We do not have this ability in us by birth, on the other hand without this ability we will not survive in Nature’s fully integrated, interdependent system. Life, the general balance, and homeostasis life depend on are based on “true love”, this is what keeps our biological cells together for example.

Our human uniqueness is that we have to purposefully, consciously, methodically learn how to “truly love” against our inherently self-living, hateful nature. By that we will consciously, tangibly, realistically know, feel, taste what ”Life” is, how and for what purpose our reality exists.

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Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.