Is Deepak Chopra right...Love is irrational?

Question

"Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart."

- Deepak Chopra

Answer 1

Love, though it doesn't realize it, does need reason. Otherwise, it just happens, which may not be healthy for the victim of love's influence.

Answer 2

Love and other emotions are ego based. Emotions are not based on wisdom but we can transcend this state and come to a point where we can practice loving kindness and compassion for all sentient beings. If we can't love without discrimination, then we don't know love. When you approach someone on the street it is either with like, dislike or indifference. It is this attitude of judgment which stops us from really understanding what love is. Once we learn to love everyone and everything without that judgment then we are starting to practice wisdom. Actually it's much deeper than the samsaric view that 'love is great', 'love is kind' and that sort of thing. Deepak Chopra is speaking from an ultimate viewpoint not a relative one - most people relate on a relative level.

Answer 3

Deepak Chopra is wrong about everything he's ever said. Quantum Science is no actual. Love is not really desired because it acts like fear in the sense that it destroys the beliefs that we surround ourselves with. Love has no owners or quality.

Answer 4

No from Deeps Chopra's Hindu metaphysical view it maybe but love is the completeness of self through selfless giving while trying to be God like.



The religious challenge of this age is to those farseeing and forward-looking men and women of spiritual insight who will dare to construct a new and appealing philosophy of living out of the enlarged and exquisitely integrated modern concepts of cosmic truth, universe beauty, and divine goodness. Such a new and righteous vision of morality will attract all that is good in the mind of man and challenge that which is best in the human soul. Truth, beauty, and goodness are divine realities, and as man ascends the scale of spiritual living, these supreme qualities of the Eternal become increasingly co-ordinated and unified in God, who is love. Page 43-3

Answer 5

In my opinion Deepak Chopra is absolutely right...love has no real rhyme or reason.. It simply exists ;There is no set of rules when it comes to love.Sometimes the most seemingly incompatible people have the deepest love..for each other .



Love knows no boundaries, race or religion or culture...

Answer 6

Chopra is irrational. Anyone who contradicts objectivity is irrational. That doesn't mean "nuts" or "insane"; it means not logical.



"PLAYBOY: Where, would you say, should romantic love fit into the life of a rational person whose single driving passion is work?



AYN RAND: It is his greatest reward. The only man capable of experiencing a profound romantic love is the man driven by passion for his work -- because love is an expression of self-esteem, of the deepest values in a man's or a woman's character. One falls in love with the person who shares these values. If a man has no clearly defined values, and no moral character, he is not able to appreciate another person. In this respect, I would like to quote from The Fountainhead, in which the hero utters a line that has often been quoted by readers: "To say 'I love you' one must know first how to say the 'I.'"



Chopra sees love as without clearly defined values, and no moral character.



"PLAYBOY: You hold that one's own happiness is the highest end, and that self-sacrifice is immoral. Does this apply to love as well as work?



RAND: To love more than to anything else. When you are in love, it means that the person you love is of great personal, selfish importance to you and to your life.



Chopra obviously believes that men are not capable of "great personal, selfish, important" love.



That is irrational



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Answer 7

Love, in most senses, is irrational. There are billions of people in the world, what are the odds that two who feel the same way about each other should beat the odds? Have you ever asked someone why he (she) loved another? Answers vary- "He makes me laugh," "Her smile makes me melt," "His great personality." Logically, this makes little sense. There is something inside us, something nearly unidentifiable, that makes us fall for someone, makes us fall in love.

Answer 8

I believe in this quote:

."Meeting was fate, becoming a friend was a choice, but falling in love was beyond my control." ~unknown~



Love is kind and its one of lifes most beautiful thing to experience. Once you experience love you will experience life! It comes from deep within the heart and soul!

Answer 9

Then it isn't love at all. It's like saying that love is blind. True love sees things.

Answer 10

He would know more than me about irrationality.