Love. How many people have this feeling? There is love for the mother, for the motherland, for her child, her husband, wise, unrequited and so on. However, there is another kind of feeling called platonic love. It represents a special relationship between partners. Such love does not imply sexual intercourse. The very concept of "platonic love" appeared even before our era. This feeling bears the name of the most famous philosopher in ancient Greece. The sage was called Plato. This person is known for writing an essay called "Feast". One of the heroes of this story talks about a very high relationship. It was Plato who first suggested that the most ideal love does not at all need sexual contact between both partners.
Previously, the concept of platonic love meant a special relationship of the Sage to his disciples. It is currently very difficult to understand this topic and understand how you can love your students who want to learn from a teacher of wisdom. Such feelings Plato called spiritual. In the dialogue of Pausanias it was said that a country that will accept such love will at all times develop and prosper. Everyone knows that the philosopher was distinguished by a special romanticism. He always said that love has many manifestations, and it is hiding under the mask of the so-called Eros earthly and spiritual. All people try to find their pleasure only in sexual relations. As for the more subtle and spiritual contact between partners, it has long been lost. People commit serious acts for the sake of love, often without even suspecting that their feeling is ordinary lust. The oddities of love of the Plato era do not end there.
So, as was said above, platonic love is feelings based on the spiritual interconnection of people. There is not a drop of eroticism or sex in it. There are several signs characteristic of such love. For example, platonic love does not depend on the appearance of lovers, their age and the like. People just feel a special connection with each other. They spend a lot of time together. And that’s good for both of them. They enjoy such relationships, which are based primarily on mutual understanding.
It is interesting that in the eastern countries there still exists a real Platonic love. These feelings are experienced by teachers and students studying the art of yoga. Without such a connection, it is simply simply impossible to convey the most secret and secret knowledge.
Currently, the best example of a platonic relationship is considered to be the love of Stephanie Mayer and her husband. They met when the girl was fifteen years old. Young people got married six years later. All that time they were connected only by spiritual relations. In the life of a girl and a guy there was no place for sexual contacts. Now Mayer is a very famous writer. The spouses have three children. The woman transferred the whole philosophy of such relationships to her books. This literature is translated into almost forty languages of the world. The very first novel of this writer in our country was released seven years ago.
Perhaps for some, platonic love sounds like nonsense. However, in our time such relationships exist. Just look around. There are still people on the planet for whom sex does not matter. Between them there is something more than ordinary sexual contact. This is a connection at the highest spiritual level. In any case, what type of relationship to choose for yourself, it is up to the individual to decide. What exactly he prefers, how he will build life and develop feelings for his soul mate, for strangers will remain a mystery forever.