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This describes nothing in particular. It defines nothing. It's poetic gobbledygook.The greatest thing in all of nature.
And can you write your answer as well.What does love mean to you? How have you seen love in your life?
That's a wonderful question. I am far from living my ideal but love is my goal and my destination.
To me love is the beginning and the ending of the reason for existence.
Love for self and one's pleasure is the lowest rung on the ladder. Then comes love of family followed by love in widening circles until love encompasses the whole of creation and every one in it.
So when we look at suffering children anywhere in the world and feel that it's our children who are suffering, we are manifesting love. When we look at people suffering from lack of food, lack of medical care and lack of freedom and feel that we are ourselves suffering what they're suffering, we are manifesting love.
Having a warm feeling for others is the first step. When we put ourselves out to help someone else, we are manifesting love. If my wife asks something reasonable of me and I'm tired and grumpy, love tells me to get up and do what she asks and never let a hint of complaint touch my lips.
Humans are naturally altruistic within their own perceived tribes. Self-sacrifice is automatic, unthinking. It's a relic of our pleistocene, band-based, hunter-gatherer evolution development.I see the real essence of love not being a feeling but an action (although when the feeling are there it is great).
Jesus on the cross acted the greatest act of love... "Father forgive them..." - wasn't getting any goosebumps, no love feelings, a love decision...
The feelings came back when He saw millions and billions of people coming into Heaven's gates.
What does love mean to you? How have you seen love in your life?
Hush -- You know you love it.Baby, don't hurt me?
What does love mean to you? How have you seen love in your life?
I disagree. Love is an emotion or drive. It manifests various behaviors, but love, itself, is an abstraction.Love is an action, a behaviour. Love is something you do.
If I say I love someone, it is not merely about an emotion I feel internally.
To love someone is to actively care for them, in whatever ways I am able.
Those ways could be physical, emotional or psychological. It may be cooking meals or helping to dig a garden. It may be attentiveness to the loved one’s feelings, an enabling of emotional expression.
Whatever else it is, love is an action you choose.
You're trying to apply religious doctrine to a psychological or neurological phenomenon.God is love. - 1 John 4:8.
Tony above stated it correctly when he stated "love is the cause of creation." Love and only love. Everything exists because of love and we will continue to exist because of it.
God does not possess or have love, he is love.
And true love throws fear out. As fear is acting as a restraint. Love allows one to bear all things and believe all things.
This may sound a little academic here...in the Greek language there are four words for love, unlike the one in English. We have agape, this is principled love, often translated charity, but is much more than simple charity, it allows one to love even a stranger or an enemy. There is storge, love between friends, philia, natural love between family members, and finally eros, which is romantic love.
Concerning love the Bible says:
"Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous. It does not brag, does not get puffed up, does not behave indecently, does not look for its own interests, does not become provoked. It does not keep account of the injury. It does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails."-1 Corinthians 13:4-8.