Condicions d'amor: De comensament e amor
The Paradox of Love's Beginning
Love begins in the middle place, through its own end, and requires a greater lover and beloved.
Every good and great lover starts loving in the middle place of love.1 ii. Every love begins through the end of loving. iii. Without a greater lover and beloved, there can't be a greater beginning of love.
Equality and Greatness in Love's Beginning
Equal love begins through equality of lover and beloved, and a great lover cannot have a lesser beginning.
iv. From equality of love between lover and beloved, equal love begins. v. A lesser start to love does not suit a great lover.
Read the original Catalan
oT bo e gran amador comensa amar en lo mig loc damor. ij. Tota amor comensa per la fi d amar. iij. Sens major amic e amat, no pot ésser major comensament damor.
iiij. Per egualtat damor damic e damat comensa egual amor. Y. Menor comensament damor no es de gran amador.
Notes
- 1 ↩Source opens with OCR garble «oT». Read as «Tot» (every): parallel to «Tota amor» in the next proposition, and to the common Llull phrase «bo e gran amador».
Arbre de filosofia d'amor (Tree of the Philosophy of Love) companion
A daily portion of stillness
Chosen Portion delivers one short contemplative reading and a guided moment of silence each day — the ascent, one step at a time.
Chosen Portion is the paced doorway into this collection: it portions the dense mystical treatises into one daily reading plus guided silence, exactly as the 14-day plan teaches.
- Daily bite-sized excerpts from the contemplative classics, never a wall of text
- A built-in timed stillness practice that grows from 2 minutes to 10
- Gentle progression through the tradition — the app remembers where you are on the ascent