"Love is a sign of our misery. God can only love himself. We can only love something other than ourselves."
— Simone Weil
How was this universe created? However far we advance in our research, the creative principle always conceals itself from us. And yet all the great spiritual traditions have intuited something essential: love is at the origin of creation.
Simone Weil's paradox cuts to the heart of the human condition. Our love is born of incompleteness — we love because we lack, because we need, because we are separate from what we desire to be united with. Love is the wound that points towards wholeness.
Yet this very incompleteness is what drives evolution. The longing for union — at every level, from the attraction of particles to the mystical longing for God — is the engine of the universe's self-organisation. We do not love despite our limitations — we love because of them, and through love we gradually transcend them.
"Human love, with all its imperfections and sufferings, is the embryonic form of an absolute love that the universe is slowly, painfully, gloriously developing."
— Universal Mechanics
Universal Mechanics proposes that the evolution of love — from the most primitive attraction of particles to the highest mystical ecstasy — is the real story of the universe. Everything else is prologue.
Ce n'est pas une utopie. C'est une trajectoire déjà visible, inscrite dans l'histoire depuis le premier primate. Lentement. Imparfaitement. Mais dans une direction.
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