What is love? Is it a duty? Is it a label? Is it something logical?
Love is the ultimate flowering, the first step towards the infinite.
Or is it something which can hurt us?
Or is it something which can hurt us?
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Permalink Reply by Karen on -
nice to see you've started yet another frivolous, light hearted discussion topic Roy. ;-)
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Permalink Reply by roy on -
Hi pretty Karen,
Just something for people to jog their minds and hearts. It could be one of the most important questions if people would understand it.
Our life is all about love, isnt it? while other trivial things taking priority of our life.
Thanks for your response
Love
Roy
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Permalink Reply by Lynne on -
The other day, I was driving and the world seemed fake. Everything. Then all of a sudden, I got this wonderful feeling of warmth throughout my body, from head to toe with the feeling, so clear, that all we have is love. This was not a thought, but a feeling from beyond--it was absolutely beautiful. It only lasted seconds. I tried to get it back, but, lol, I could not. So, I am glad to have been left with that enlightening reality. I thank God for having the opportunity to experience it. It was divine and absolutely wonderful.
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Permalink Reply by roy on
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Dear Lynne,
What you experienced was a moment of 'unconditional love'. This is the truth and the reality which has been hidden by layers of education and society conditioning.
This feeling is 'experiencing the ONE' and it happens only through not intending. It is something which cannot be explained by the mind. It is a feeling beyond all feelings.
Hope you experience more of these moments.
Love
Roy
PS - Love your smile
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Permalink Reply by TimG on -
Biologists would argue that love is a chain of chemical reactions the body has, such as what animals feel.
I don't agree.
"Love" is simply the spiritual connection one has with someone or something. Could be a person, could be a dog or a car (and let's differentiate between love and sex here, ok?). The connection does affect the body and emotional state: sweaty palms, tears of grief or happiness, exhilaration.
Of course if the spiritual connection is betrayed or broken, there is pain. When the connection is alive and healthy, there is bliss.
Remember that time when you got first got your car? Didn't you immediately connect to it and did everything you could to better that relationship? How about when it needed repairs? Didn't you worry? Didn't you say "I love my car. I miss my car."
The advantage with the spiritual connection between two people is that it's a two-way connection... unlike the love for a car.
I am oversimplifying it (and maybe it just needs to be oversimplified!), but that's my two cents anyway.
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Permalink Reply by roy on
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Thanks TimG for the explanation.
Really, love is beyond all explanation and however we may try words will fall short.
Love
Roy
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Permalink Reply by MARINA on
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Love means nothing if it is not expressed with your actions.
Love is not about what you say, it's about what you do.
Love is something you choose to feel.
I also believe that GOD is Love.
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Permalink Reply by roy on
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Dear Marina,
Thats a wonderful way to try and explain. Seems you are on the path to experience truth and reality.
Thanks for your reply
Love
Roy
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Permalink Reply by Robyn on -
Love is a big word....that seems to encompass a lot of different things for different people.
I think probably every person you ask "what is love" you will get a different answer.
I love my husband...most of the time. But we fall in and out of "love" on a regular basis. Sometimes I'm not sure if our love has one definition....sometimes I feel just one of these, sometimes all of them. Respect, duty, commitment, affection, attachment, attraction, vulnerability and security.
I love my parents and siblings in much the same way. I feel and added connection maybe because we are part of each other biologically.
I have a general love for people, maybe that's empathy.
I love my animals, I miss them when they're gone, but it's not the same connection I feel towards people.
I love my friends, but I know it is conditional. I have forsaken them in the past and moved on. So is that love?
But, One love that I know is so real and so powerful that it is the only "true and unconditional" love I claim to have experienced in my life, is what I feel for my children. I have never had an emotion as strong as this. My life revolves around it, my mind dwells on it, my actions and the directions I take in life are dictated by it. My life is devoted to this love and I am blessed to have experienced this in my life. I know that for me.... this is my definition of "infinite love"
I never understood the love of God until this happened to me, now I do.
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Permalink Reply by roy on
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Dear Robyn, thanks for expressing your opinion.
Love is a natural feeling. It is our true nature. We may have suppressed it throughout our repressed growing up process, but when love happens, one surpasses all conditioning, all logic, all that is taught. One then centres in the heart. When this centering happens, one is out of the mind or all logical or dualistic thinking. It awakens a being to the extent that they behave naturally (unnatural in terms of logical/egoistic thinking).
Like it would be unnatural in todays world for big corp to save a rain forest.
Or a super market to give its (on the verge of expiry) products for free.
Love
Roy
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Permalink Reply by Jessica on -
I think love is when we see past one's human flaws to their higher self. That's why when you first "fall in love" it seems so strong and incredible; we look past the imperfect to the point that we only see the divine. It takes work and growth to make this last. I think true and pure love is not about how someone makes you feel about yourself, but about you seeing the pure and true in them. That's why I don't think it's possible to truly "love" a car. Your car evokes emotion in you because of how it makes you feel about yourself. One's identity can easily be linked to their material possessions. I think this would fall more into the category of idolatry than actual love. True love is leaving behind the physical for the spiritual. True love IS spiritual.
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