There are feelings that are objective and subjective. These feelings takes their main content
the intentionality toward their objects.
If the object engenders happiness in us, we feel love for that object;
if the object brings sadness to us, we feel hatred for that object.
To borrow Spinoza's words, love is happiness accompanying the concept
of external cause. On the whole, happiness and love are deeply connected
even at a sematic level: The Japanese word "ureshi" (happy) comes from a
transformation of "uruwashi" (lovely), and "uruwashi" is nothing but "heart's love"
(ura-hashi).

love follows:
He looks art me,
Both arms
Stretched out
How lovely this child!

hate is:
I no longer hate
The knowledge that good things
In this world
Are few indeed
This is my habit of forgetting!

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