I assume “learning handicaps” is what we today call “learning disabilities,” which doesn’t refer to low intelligence but rather to specific difficulties in learning (like dyslexia). First it says, “You have learning handicaps in a very literal sense” (T-12.VII.5:2). It not only says we don’t know what love is, but it then connects that with a mental disability. Indeed, the Course echoes Jenny’s statement about Forrest. To reverse Forrest Gump’s statement, you don’t know what love is. Thus, when the Course says, “You do not know the meaning of love” (T-12.VII.7:1), it means that you don’t understand love. It refers to understanding what love really is.
The phrase “the meaning of love” does not refer to a verbal definition of love. When we look at all these references, one thing becomes perfectly clear. The meaning of love is a theme that runs throughout the entire Course, being discussed or mentioned in thirty-six paragraphs (this includes one in the Psychotherapy supplement). As it turns out, we are not lacking for related discussions. Yet to really understand that line, we need to interpret it in light of related discussions in the Course. Most of us take that line to mean that the Course does not offer a verbal definition of love, for its real meaning is beyond words. One of the most well known lines in A Course in Miracles is from the introduction: “The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught” (T-In.1:6). Love is one…It is like itself, unchanged throughout.
But I know what love is.” By the time the movie is over, you realize that, more than most of us, he does know what love is. When it’s clear she is not going to say yes, he says, “Why don’t you love me, Jenny? I’m not a smart man. Later in the story, Forrest asks her if she will marry him. At one point Forrest tells her he loves her and she quickly responds, “You don’t know what love is.” In her mind, his low intelligence makes him incapable of truly understanding love. Forrest, who is mildly retarded, has been in love since childhood with Jenny, whose abuse by her father has left her psychologically damaged. There is a powerful scene in the movie Forrest Gump.
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