http://davesawakening.blogspot.com/2011/03/metal-in-our-minds.html

Agape, on the other hand, lends its meaning more to action. I guess we call that “charity” (in the Greek sense, not the United Way bullshit sense). It seems to be less emotion and more a method. That’s what tosses a wrench the love/fear duality thing for me.

If God/The All/The Absolute/Whatever can be equated with Love, then one might say “All/The Singularity is Love”. But then the polarity becomes Something/Nothing. This is the most “zoomed-out” duality I can conceive of. But translate that into emotion, and you’ve got a duality of Some emotion/No emotion. So that would place all emotion on one end, and apathy or “nothing” on the other.
I don’t know where to go from there yet.

Sometimes I think “love” and “fear” aren’t the best words to use in describing this concept, because they are both culturally loaded words, so full of associations that can easily distract one from the essence of the message they’re being used to convey in this case. It took me a while to accept the idea because at first, to be honest, considering “love” and “fear” to be polar opposites was alien to my way of thinking, owing to my lack of understanding of what those words mean in this particular context. It took some reflection and contemplation, but I now recognize the forces that are being referred to when people speak of “love” and “fear” in this way. Although the meanings that culture and conditioning cause us to attach to the words may shed light on some of the particular manifestations of this dynamic, in other ways they can be obstacles to understanding.