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This may be a reasonable thing for an individual to do (though I doubt it, as it can never succeed) but socially and politically, such a quest has led to more death and unhappiness than any other idea/human desire in history. But what he appears to be describing isn't love but the human desire for totality/wholeness/integrity/purity/etc.