The Cry of Love, The Philosophy of Compassion, Between Man and God

Soyo's Existence Ethics (Existence itself is ethics)

Cries of Love

Why Does Love Hurt? The Truth of Existence, not Emotion

Why does love hurt so much?

I have spent my life engraving this question on my heart each night. People often say love is an emotion, or define it as a form of relationship, sometimes even as destiny. But to me, love is not something that can be explained; it is the very turmoil of existence itself.

When love comes, humans disarm themselves. They shed their armor of self-defense, becoming powerless before another. This powerlessness is not defeat but a confession—a noble decision to lay oneself down for the sake of another who is more vulnerable. Love is dazzling. It rushes in like waves crashing on the shore, taking your breath away, then recedes like the tide. What is left is a desolate beach, an empty heart, and the echo of loneliness where a presence once stood. Through this recurring pain, I realized love is not an emotion. Love is the cry that flows from one being to another. It is quiet, yet as deep as the abyss—invisible on the surface, yet revealed as the most essential movement of human existence.

The Language of Compassion, the Trembling of Existence

Compassion has always stood in the place of love. Yet compassion is not simply the emotion of pity—it is the power to bear the pain of others within oneself. It is the ability to find my tears in the tears of others and to encounter the origin of ethics in the trembling of their cries. I have philosophized about myself in that trembling. On the long journey of questioning, deconstructing, and reconstructing myself, compassion has always been my philosophical companion. At the end of that journey, I realized love cannot be defined.

Love is the breath of God that cannot be fully captured by human language. That realization made even old music knock on the deep doors of my soul. The tears that flowed without reason were not emotions, but the response of existence evoked by compassion. It was the sacred cry that only those who embrace suffering with love can shed.

A Civilization of Conditions, Love Without Conditions

Yet the reality I faced was cruel. Even though humans deserve to be loved simply for existing, modern civilization has shackled even love with conditions. Ability, appearance, status, and roles have become the gateways to love, and those who cannot cross that threshold are always marginalized. Love became a strategy rather than a blessing. Relationships turned into transactions, and existence was reduced to a commodity. This world became a grave for love. Faced with this reality, I could not stop my second cry. Within the structure of civilization humans created, love was constantly betrayed, and existence was abandoned. In that despair, I quietly laid the word “love” before God.

And in the silence, I let out my third cry. At that moment, I realized that when human love fails, God's love embraces even that failure and leads it into eternity. Love is not something we can define; it is the language of eternity that God pours into human frailty.

The Philosophy of Divine Love: The Bond of Compassion and Eternity

I now confess. Love is a divine philosophy, born at the boundary between human and God. When God's touch meets human fragility and tears, love is reborn. That love is neither emotion nor morality but the sacred bond between one existence and another. That bond speaks thus: “I exist to embrace you.” That is why love is noble. Even if it is not understood or rewarded, it remains the deepest essence of existence. The traces of our tears, our partings, and our wounds are all fragments of the soul that God has engraved upon humanity.

The Cry of Love: The Conclusion of Philosophy

Love is suffering. Yet that suffering is not meaningless. It is painful because it is the sacred channel through which existence flows toward others. Love cannot be defined. Love is compassion—the eternal trace revealed when God's hand touches human tears. That trace is the mysterious and sacred philosophy that permeates our entire lives. I still philosophize about that love. And I still quietly cry before love.

Soyo (逍遙) – Founder of Soyo's Existence Ethics, Author of 'The Silence of Existence' and 'The Flame of Truth.'

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