Peterson describes existence as suffering tainted with malevolence. I partially agree. We do suffer, and how we react to what life hits us with can reduce our suffering, or transform it into experience that feeds the creativity of our self-actualizing response to what we have learned, lived or been born into. A wise, loving, activist response to our suffering can lead to victories, partial and temporary to be sure, but victories nonetheless. Victories felt, and victories earned can lead to happiness and happy feelings about our lives and situation, even if such joy is not lasting.
We are in a world where malevolence is innate in nature, in society, in our in natures, and as powerful, primal spirits of hate and destruction, dark forces within us and all around us.
We are limited and mortal. The power given to our soul, at birth, by the Divine Couple, is of limited capacity. We cannot rework the world to eliminate suffering and malevolence. Creatures and animate and inanimate forces at work in the universe bring suffering and malevolence to us, and we have nothing to say about it, nor the muscle to prevent it.
Perhaps a negative definition of love could be to encounter honestly occurrences of suffering and malevolence, by not succumbing to them, and by so choosing and acting that one does not affirm or extend their influence.
The positive definition of loving could be to communicate benevolence towards oneself, others and all of nature in such a way as to introduce happiness, enjoyment and order into the world.
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