100% FREE ONLINE DATING
sponsored links
Previous
| Topic: What is love? | |
|---|---|
|
|
|
My interpretation of love is simple and complex. That is my poetic self. The depth and width and breadth of love is to allow love to express itself as it wishes within a safe, secure knowledge that it is trully free to love and is free to grow in that love
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
There has been a lot of discussion about love lately. I feel that my position hasn't been clear, so I'm going to explain where I'm coming from. Feeling - A temporary experience, which may or may not have an obvious origin. Emotion - An experience that is deeply rooted in the psyche and exists independent of external stimuli. Love is not a feeling or an emotion. You don't have to learn how to hate someone or how to be angry or hungry or tired or how to be afraid of spiders. But you have to learn how to love someone and we all do it differently. Love does have an emotional aspect, but to say that love is an emotion is like saying that Godzilla is a lizard. It's like saying that the Earth is a rock floating in space. It's like saying that a human is a pile of various minerals. While those statements have a grain of truth, they are also so inaccurate as to be shockingly wrong. Love is so important to human beings, that it's listed only after physiological and safety needs on Maslow's hierarchy of needs. This means that any normal healthy human who has the things he/she needs to live and has shelter from the various dangers of the world, immediately starts to seek out love. Is there any emotion that people seek out? Don't say "happiness", because that's a feeling. Finally, I would be remiss if I didn't add "Oh baby, don't hurt me, Don't hurt me no more." I opened a thread here about "closed vs. open hearts" and I completely understand where you're coming from. I was thinking back to speech class and Maslow's hierarchy of needs and it occurred to me...how truly complicated love is. Not the word. People complicate it. And no, not everyone throws the word around. What a ridiculously callous thing to say, and way too general to hold true meaning. The word itself is a neutral dirty rag, without the meaning, its completely invisible. I am so tired of people saying its the hardest thing to want/need. It truly isn't. There was a reason why John Lennon and the peace movement was such a force to be reckoned with. Because nothing is stronger or more simple than love. The close minded would preach and give excuses, why this or that will not suffice or work out because people have changed and stopped caring. The truth of the matter is: its a need. No one can't disprove nor provide a defense to why it isn't. A physiological one that. And its the least confusing of all the needs. To the closed and fearful minded of the population, they won't understand this. The rest of us remain steadfast and true to our ideals. I'm very happy to see you bring up Lennon. I really enjoyed my time working with some of his groupies/family/followers. My eyes were opened to a great many things during and because of that time. If you shook his hand I plan on meeting you one day.  I don't think anyone in the media understood the power of love and peace more than John during those harsh times where so much was questioned. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
to say that love is an emotion is like saying that Godzilla is a lizard.
^ this it is beyond emotion - it is a state of being |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
What is love?
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. I Cor. 13:4-7 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
love is the loss of self
pretty simple really namaste 
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
There has been a lot of discussion about love lately. I feel that my position hasn't been clear, so I'm going to explain where I'm coming from. Feeling - A temporary experience, which may or may not have an obvious origin. Emotion - An experience that is deeply rooted in the psyche and exists independent of external stimuli. Love is not a feeling or an emotion. You don't have to learn how to hate someone or how to be angry or hungry or tired or how to be afraid of spiders. But you have to learn how to love someone and we all do it differently. Love does have an emotional aspect, but to say that love is an emotion is like saying that Godzilla is a lizard. It's like saying that the Earth is a rock floating in space. It's like saying that a human is a pile of various minerals. While those statements have a grain of truth, they are also so inaccurate as to be shockingly wrong. Love is so important to human beings, that it's listed only after physiological and safety needs on Maslow's hierarchy of needs. This means that any normal healthy human who has the things he/she needs to live and has shelter from the various dangers of the world, immediately starts to seek out love. Is there any emotion that people seek out? Don't say "happiness", because that's a feeling. Finally, I would be remiss if I didn't add "Oh baby, don't hurt me, Don't hurt me no more." Love comes in many forms. To me the most important love is my family and friends; anything else would just be icing on the cake. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
God is love if we can comprehend God we can comprehend love. For God is Love. it is not easy to love I'm talking about an authentic love here.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
To my own view,love is friendship because in the deepest of friendship u find a true love.
|
|
|
|
|
