LOVE
The mysterious word, the one no-one can describe fully, but know it when they have it. A definition of the dictionary:a strong feeling of affection. Exactly that but als o completely different. It is an overwhelming feeling, making you think only about the one you love. It's not physical, but emotional love that matters most. If you have never seen that love before, then I pity you greatfully, for it is a feeling greatly envied.
--LOVE-- every and no explanations for it
not eveb emotional love is the best....., Spiritual Love is even better..... emotions can only go so-deep.......
Good question, here:
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love n.
1. A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness.
2. A feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; the emotion of sex and romance.
3.An intense emotional attachment, as for a pet or treasured object.
4.A person who is the object of deep or intense affection or attraction; beloved. Often used as a term of endearment. |
what do you mean by spiritual love.. what is the difference in emotional love and spiritual love.. please explain.. before anybody go further on this thread
I found this somewhere. I think that it is nice description 
When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake, and then it subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots are become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the desire to mate every second of the day. It is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every part of your body. No... don't blush. I am telling you some truths. For that is just being in love; which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over, when being in love has burned away. Doesn't sound very exciting, does it? But it is!
Recent studies have shown that love or rather being in love causes a number of chemical in the human physiology that causes us to be happier, livelier etc and feel attracted towards the other person. Anyone who has been lucky enough to have been in love will know what I am talking about. How the other person seems perfect and incapable of doing anything wrong and the fire of passion is hot and burning. 
Unfortunately the studies also show that these changes last for about 18 months. After that it is upto the individuals to keep that 'spark' going, by planning romantic getaways and trying out new and exciting things together...etc | 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 wrote: |
| "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." (NIV) |
that is the true meaning of love in the bible 
Scientific answer: Chemical and electrical reactions in the brain.
psychological: A strong positive emotional attachment to some one/thing.
Not to be confused with lust, infatuation or obsession but often are.
| The Conspirator wrote: |
| Not to be confused with lust, infatuation or obsession but often are. |
so true people often confuse lust with love, like my little sister said when i said i LOVE lasagna "if you love it so much why dont you marry it?" people have gotten out of touch with what the difference really is dont you think? | Aileen wrote: |
LOVE
The mysterious word, the one no-one can describe fully, but know it when they have it. A definition of the dictionary:a strong feeling of affection. Exactly that but als o completely different. It is an overwhelming feeling, making you think only about the one you love. It's not physical, but emotional love that matters most. If you have never seen that love before, then I pity you greatfully, for it is a feeling greatly envied.
--LOVE-- every and no explanations for it |
I believe that love is positive outwardness. It is an encounter with the Other manifest as completely devoted care. Love itself is a complete outwardness. It is giving and generous; it is so concerned with the Other that one becomes in a nearly selfless state - in this state the self is only relevant insofar as it is a conduit for love.If you are asking yourself “Who am I?” you will find out how you are not body, mind, thoughts, etc. If you eliminate all what is coming in your mind on the end you will get (this is message of many spiritual teachers)…
YOU ARE LOVE!!!
Sonam
Love is a condition or phenomenon of emotional primacy, or absolute value. Love generally includes an emotion of intense attraction to either another person, a place, or thing; and may also include the aspect of caring for or finding identification with those objects, including self-love. Love can describe an intense feeling of affection, an emotion or an emotional state. In ordinary use, it usually refers to interpersonal love, an experience usually felt by a person for another person. Love is commonly considered impossible to define.
The concept of love, however, is subject to debate. Some deny the existence of love, calling it a recently invented abstraction. Moreover, approximately 13 percent of cultures reportedly have no word for love.[1] Others maintain that love exists but is indefinable; being a quantity which is spiritual, metaphysical, or philosophical in nature. Love is one of the most common themes in art. An unfinished debate about the authenticity of love as other-regard began with Friedrich Nietzsche's charge that love is merely an ideology constructed by the weak to mask "resentment" about their lack of power. Critics of Nietzsche's view find gratuitous his assumptions that self-interest and the "will to power" overshadow all other concerns.
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1 Overview
2 Types
3 Scientific views
4 Cultural views
5 Religious views
6 Definitional issues
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
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Overview
Love has several different meanings in the English language, from something that gives a little pleasure to something that one would die for. And in contrast to the definition at the top, frequently people use the verb "love" to indicate want or desire for themselves as opposed to for another. For example: "I love ice cream," does not refer to desiring wellness for ice cream, but rather to the desire for ice cream. The word also frequently indicates elevated appreciation or admiration: "I love that artist," Laura stated.
Cultural differences make any universal definition of love difficult to establish. Expressions of love may include the love for a soul or mind, the love of laws and organizations, love for a body, love for nature, love of food, love of money, love for learning, love of power, love of fame, and love for the respect of others. Different people place varying degrees of importance on the kinds of love they receive. Love is essentially an abstract concept, easier to experience than to explain. Many believe, as stated originally by Virgil that "Love conquers all", or as stated by The Beatles, "all you need is love". Bertrand Russell describes love as a condition of 'absolute value', as opposed to 'relative value'.
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Types
Courtly love – a late medieval conventionalized code prescribing certain conduct and emotions for ladies and their lovers
Erotic love – desire characterized by sexual desires
Familial love – affection brokered through kinship connections, intertwined with concepts of attachment and bonding
Free love – sexual relations according to choice and unrestricted by marriage
Platonic love – a close relationship in which sexual desire is nonexistent or has been suppressed or sublimated
Puppy love – romantic affection that is not "mature" or not "true". The term reflects a bias that love between youngsters is somehow less valid.
Religious love – devotion to one's deity or theology
Romantic love – affection characterized by a mix of emotional and sexual desire
True Love- Love without condition, motive or attachment. Simply loving someone for the sake of loving them.
Unrequited love – affection and desire not reciprocated or returned
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Scientific views
Main article: Love (scientific views)
Throughout history, predominantly, philosophy and religion have speculated the most into the phenomenon of love. In the last century, the science of psychology has written a great deal on the subject. Recently, however, the sciences of evolutionary psychology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, neuroscience, and biology have begun to take centre stage in discussion as to the nature and function of love.
Biological models of sex tend to see it as a mammalian drive, just like hunger or thirst. Psychology sees love as more of a social and cultural phenomenon. Psychologist Robert Sternberg explains that love has three different components. Intimacy is a form where two people can share secrets and various details of their personal life. Intimacy is usually shown in friendships and romantic love affairs. Commitment on the other hand is the expectation that the relationship is going to last forever. The last and most common form of love is simply sex, or passion. Passionate love is shown in infatuation as well as romantic love.
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Cultural views
Main article: Love (cultural views)
Although there exist numerous cross-cultural unified similarities as to the nature and definition of love, as in there being a thread of commitment, tenderness, and passion common to all human existence, there are differences. For example, in India, with arranged marriages commonplace, it is believed that love is not a necessary ingredient in the initial stages of marriage – it is something that can be created during the marriage; whereas in Western culture, by comparison, love is seen as a necessary prerequisite to marriage.
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Religious views
Main article: Love (religious views)
Whether religious love can be expressed in similar terms to interpersonal love is a matter for philosophical debate. Religious love might be considered a euphemism, more closely describing feelings of deference. Religions may use the term love to express the devotion of a follower to a deity, who may be a living guru or religious teacher, as in the Bhakti traditions of Asia. This love may be expressed by prayer, service, good deeds, and personal sacrifice. Some traditions encourage the development of passionate love in the believer for the deity.
Reciprocally, many eutheistic followers may believe that deity loves the followers and all of creation. Many believe that this type of love that God has for all of creation, often defined as charity, is an unconditional and ultimate, or infinite, form of love.
For me, Love is the way we see imperfect things into a perfect view and seeing their flaws without ceasing.
Love is the most powerful force in this universe, without love... nothing is possible.
| sonam wrote: |
If you are asking yourself “Who am I?” you will find out how you are not body, mind, thoughts, etc. If you eliminate all what is coming in your mind on the end you will get (this is message of many spiritual teachers)…
YOU ARE LOVE!!!
Sonam |
I think so. And I think that true love begins by appreciating ourselves. We can't love anyone if firstly we don't appreciate ourselves!Love is embracing your enemy.
Love is unconditional.
Love is acceptance.
Love is loving someone hard to love.
Love is seeing God in the people around us.
There is a difference between being in love and loving someone.
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Definition:
A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness.
A feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; the emotion of sex and romance.
Sexual passion.
Sexual intercourse.
A love affair.
An intense emotional attachment, as for a pet or treasured object.
A person who is the object of deep or intense affection or attraction; beloved. Often used as a term of endearment.
An expression of one's affection: Send him my love.
A strong predilection or enthusiasm: a love of language.
The object of such an enthusiasm: The outdoors is her greatest love.
Love Mythology. Eros or Cupid.
often Love Christianity. Charity.
Sports. A zero score in tennis.
I said not long ago that I would never post in this forum again....but this topic got me.
For me true,absolute love, is when my 6 year old daughter is falling asleep against my shoulder and forces herself to move up and kiss me on the cheek and say "I love you daddy"...and fall fast asleep.
Way to cool for words 
So many man-made words...
She asked in a religion-forum, I'd suppose what she wants is an answer from the creator. And who better to turn to than the very one who created you, me and love itself?
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (New King James Version)
4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;
5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;
6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails.
1 John 4:7-8 (New King James Version)
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
Love is hate and ambision.
You want to have something you dont have, and when you loosit you get sad. as the same as a computer or a videogame, but more deeply.
Love... heh, sometimes it feels like that love it is something created to confuse us humans.
What is love? Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me no more...
For me, love is to be willing to sacrifice important things in your life for that person. And I know things like lust could cause that too, since it clouds judgement. But love transcends time but lust mostly doesn't.
Wow, there are a of different ways people define what love is. Like what the post above this one says. "Love is sacrifice...."
Anyway, I read many ways that love is described, a feeling, an emotion, something physical, but I'd like to say what I think love is not. Some would argue that the opposite of love is hate. But I would disagree. I would say that the opposite of love is selfishness. For example, if you truely love someone, than you would not lie to them (or I'd hope that), you would respect them in ANY way, even if that means giving them some space once in a while when needed.
Anything that self-seeking is not love. If your primary motive, your M.O, your agenda is to get something for yourself, such as money, pleasure, sex or just be phyisally close to your 'loved one' is not love. Love goes beyond yourself. If you truly love someone, then thoughts of "self" should be the furthest from you.
I disagree....you can love without complete selflessness...infact I think there can be no love without some degree of selfishness...
Of course this varies for different types of love.
Imagine a Job that you love. Anyone would hate to lose such a job. Would dislike a potential rival who might take your job.
If you truly love someone, you cannot brush off seeing your loved one in someone elses arms easily. You will have some amount of posessiveness.
Suppose you have a daughter from a divorced marriage. If the new person in your ex-spouses life is getting so close to your daughter that you feel that person might be replacing you in her life, would you simplu be happy for your daughter and not feel anything negative?
I don't think so.
I agree with jipmerite.
The "ideal" love is selfless, but it seldom is that completely. As in the instance of loving something capable of returning such a feeling (a person, a pet, etc) you would want to have them love you the most, no? That in itself, contains a bit of "selfishness".
The difference though, is that if you truly love someone, you won't act on your selfish feelings that came along with it. You wouldn't blow your top at seeing your loved one in someone else's arms with out letting them explain. You wouldn't break the relationship between the step-parent and the child if the child is truly happy. You would just do what is best for them and not what your selfish thoughts want you to do. Will you feel happy about it? Maybe not. That is also one of the "sacrifices" I talked about.
What is love? Baby don't hurt me - don't hurt me no more.
Love is a four letter word, like many other four letter words it is used to express emotions that we feel and for lack of anything better to call it we call it love. There are many different kinds of love that can be felt - the love you have for your sister or brother is much different than the love you feel for a husband or wife. Love encompasses many different types of "good" feelings but I would have to agree with who ever said... "One cannot truely love another until one loves oneself" or something to that effect. Without knowing who you are and loving that person how can you even know what love is or how can you share it with someone else if you do not have it within you.
I think we all need love, it has scientifically proven that we benefit from physical contact.
