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As Valentine's Day approaches, people remind themselves that not all expressions of love fit the stereotypes of modern romance.
For the ancient Greeks , eros was a matter of life and death, even a danger to avoid.
Erotic love was not a pleasant diversion, but a trial to be survived, quivering with perilous energy.
In " Phaedrus ," Socrates suggests that love is a madness given by the gods, a fire blazing like artistic inspiration or sacred rites.
In erotic longing we bump up against something greater than us, a thread that we can trace back to the divine.
In desire, a shimmer of light cracks through the broken crust of the material world, inspiring us to yearn for things that last.
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