We use this word so casually..but what does it actually mean? Someone please tell me what they think love is!

We use this word so casually..but what does it actually mean? Someone please tell me what they think love is!

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wish i knew..

wish i knew..

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There can be so many different areas, different experience, different understandings.... of love. Maybe, if the question is changed to be: "What is the greatest love of all?" People may have more specific to say...

There can be so many different areas, different experience, different understandings.... of love. Maybe, if the question is changed to be: "What is the greatest love of all?" People may have more specific to say...

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i can love anything from a particular dougut to a particualr person. I would say that the magnitude and longevity of love is an inexact science, but, that says nothing about what love is itself.

We could call love the enjoyment of something(or someones presence)but that doesn't do love justice. When we experinace a sense of love we tap into a well of emotion that bubbles to the surface like the black gold of the drilling platforms. I would say that the depth of love is realative to how long it takes to dry up this spring of emotion; but still, thats not a clear account which seperates love from desire.....is there a difference between love and desire?

I would say that love exists during the interaction with the thing that is loved and desire is existant prior to interaction with the loved thing. So, desire is the aspiration of love and love is the experiance of joy which results from the interaction with a loved thing.

i can love anything from a particular dougut to a particualr person. I would say that the magnitude and longevity of love is an inexact science, but, that says nothing about what love is itself.

We could call love the enjoyment of something(or someones presence)but that doesn't do love justice. When we experinace a sense of love we tap into a well of emotion that bubbles to the surface like the black gold of the drilling platforms. I would say that the depth of love is realative to how long it takes to dry up this spring of emotion; but still, thats not a clear account which seperates love from desire.....is there a difference between love and desire?

I would say that love exists during the interaction with the thing that is loved and desire is existant prior to interaction with the loved thing. So, desire is the aspiration of love and love is the experiance of joy which results from the interaction with a loved thing.

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to take a line from a mewithoutyou song; "a thousand half loves well worth leaving just to take your madness home"

I think he is referencing the types of love that don't love back; there are many inanimate objects or experiances we can "love" but these are all half love, or love unreturned. When we love a person, the love is usually returned so one could say that true love is love returned and every other love is a half-love.

to take a line from a mewithoutyou song; "a thousand half loves well worth leaving just to take your madness home"

I think he is referencing the types of love that don't love back; there are many inanimate objects or experiances we can "love" but these are all half love, or love unreturned. When we love a person, the love is usually returned so one could say that true love is love returned and every other love is a half-love.

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when you say love is performed with action; it begs the question;

would a person do those acts, without having love for the person who is being sacrificed for, a priori?

I would say you would have to love someone to sacrifice something for them.

when you say love is performed with action; it begs the question;

would a person do those acts, without having love for the person who is being sacrificed for, a priori?

I would say you would have to love someone to sacrifice something for them.

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Love is usually performed with action. Or love is expressed by certain action. A mother saves her child from danger, a soldier protects his home/family/country by fighting back enemy, Jesus (in christianity) saves man by taking his cross,... No matter how much you believe these, I see the common point is "to sacrifice".. This is what I believe the greatest love of all.

Love is usually performed with action. Or love is expressed by certain action. A mother saves her child from danger, a soldier protects his home/family/country by fighting back enemy, Jesus (in christianity) saves man by taking his cross,... No matter how much you believe these, I see the common point is "to sacrifice".. This is what I believe the greatest love of all.

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ok so what do you think the greatest love of all is? Even if we knew what the greatest love of all is....Does that really help us to understand what love actually is. Why do we feel love? is it simply biological , chemical reactions... or is it something more profound?

ok so what do you think the greatest love of all is? Even if we knew what the greatest love of all is....Does that really help us to understand what love actually is. Why do we feel love? is it simply biological , chemical reactions... or is it something more profound?

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"love yourself" may mean to accept yourself as is, to do what you believe is good... All these are basics to support you, to move you,.... to lead you to be able to love others.

"love yourself" may mean to accept yourself as is, to do what you believe is good... All these are basics to support you, to move you,.... to lead you to be able to love others.

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i couldn't imagine hating myself, so, i guess you could say that.

How does one go about loving oneself? the same way we love others?

i couldn't imagine hating myself, so, i guess you could say that.

How does one go about loving oneself? the same way we love others?

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