Ecclesiastes (ch. 3) lists many opposing attributes and states that each is legitimate at times. In verse 8 he says: 'A time to love and a time to hate'. This could be interpreted as suggesting that: a) hate is the opposite of love and b) love is not always virtuous!
If we view love as the ultimate all encompassing virtue that shall prevail to unite all, how could there be place for hate? On the other hand, aren't we supposed to paradoxically love hate too?
There may be no contradiction here if we differentiate between the unlimited 'omni' level and limited partial levels. All 'wholes' are composed of many parts that differ in value and appreciation. We may appreciate many attributes of a person and therefore even accept some attributes which are not so appreciated. On the other hand, we may hate some parts of a human character like unnecessary violence. This hate of violence indeed opposes a love of violence, but it serves a higher level of love - peace. Thus, while we do not value any opposite of love at the 'omni' level, we still could tolerate hate at a partial level that does disservice to a more ultimate level of love. Thus, such hate actually serves love!
Now to the question; understanding that there is a place for hate and accordingly for the act of repelling since it also serves love, would there be any kind of thought, attitude, feeling or emotion that never serves love and thus should totally be done away with?
Disgust for example; can we fathom an instance in which disgust serves a higher level of love, or does it stem from a lack of general love and we should therefore work on totally doing away with it?
Here is a quote: Disgust and love are opposites. If disgust is about closing-off borders, love is about dissolving walls - Jonathan Heidt (13:20). Is it always so, or does disgust sometimes serve love by helping to ward off a factor destructive of love? In other words; is there place to love disgust?
A general attitude recommended by Elise de La Source is to ask oneself when facing any event especially a discomforting one - 'If everything is perfect, what does this teach?' The meaning of such attitude is the cultivation of love and the maximization of understanding towards and in the context of the whole of all (Being).
That attitude pertains to disgust too. While hate repels by pushing away that which obstructs love, disgust repels by pulling oneself away from it. So yes, all 'thought, attitude, feeling, emotion' have a place in the context of love for all. Even 'delegitimization' is ok, provided its' dosage is in proportion to such love! Thus, withholding love through delegitimization, hate, disgust etc... towards specifics is legitimate as part of the love of Being. In conclusion; hate and disgust are loved within the frame reference (in the context) of love. Just like local hurt done in an operation necessary for the removal of an obstruction that harms the whole.
Here are some points elaborated throughout this forum about the ultimate post-love stage, which very much clarify the answer to this post's question.
A. Post-love is defined as: Harmony adhesiveness within the infinite spread.
B. Post-love is based on the recognition that no part of reality requires the denial of existence of any other part.
C. Post-love attitude [is towards] the whole of all, in such a way, that the extensive and the intensive are non-dual and thus don't outdo each other.
D. A post-love attitude [is] an encompassing non dual vision from the heart and from the deepest points of experience and consciousness is developed.
E. A general attitude recommended by Elise de La Source is to ask oneself when facing any event especially a discomforting one - 'If everything is perfect, what does this teach?' The meaning of such attitude is the cultivation of love and the maximization of understanding towards and in the context of the whole of all (Being).
F. Post-love is about inclusion not exclusion, in the sense of each part being included in it's proportionate order in the infinite spread. In post-love, the greatest beloveds, will not love each other as an expansion from i to you (regular love) or from i to we (meta-love common purpose), but from finding each other in strong adhesive proximity in the spread of Being.
G. 'Unconditional' in the full sense of the word, belongs to the realm of post-love (vs. regular and meta love).
H. The affectionate will is a benevolent attitude towards all parts of infinite Being, which is motivated to increase harmony among all of them. At the love level, this will is post-love that is based on the recognition that no part of reality requires the denial of existence of any other part. Even suffering, sadness and sorrow can be experienced as parts of the harmonious fabric of Being. Many operas bring out just such kind of emotional feelings.