ABSTRACT
The human animal, in its more philosophical moments, has always somehow known of the importance of love in the grand scheme of things. The earliest writings that have come down to us on love and on our deep yearning for connectedness have been in the form of myths and legends. The similarity between the Platonic myth and the myth of the biblical Adam and Eve is evident. The notion that love and strife are the yin and yang of existence is not new. Empedocles, a pre-Platonic Greek philosopher, saw the whole cosmos as driven along its various paths by the forces of love and strife. Religious myths of love contain many insights that are in concert with some modern scientific assumptions. A century before the birth of Christ, the Chinese philosopher Huai-nan Tzu talked about the great, empty Oneness: "All things issued from this Oneness but all became different.".
