Dialogue Raises Consciousness
The Meaning of Love
Posted by mollybrogan • 5/01/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS]
Topics: agape, eros, life, love, sex, soul, spirit
What is love? What does it mean in our lives? We all seem to come to our own understanding of love as we mature into adulthood, and that understanding changes and evolves as we do, so what does it mean to you right now?
The Greeks broke love down for us into categories: Eros, or sexual love; Philios, or love of friends, love in return for love; Agape, or unconditional love, the love of God for humanity.
Then there is the idea that love is intertwined with death. Andre Breton, in The Lost Steps tells us, “Pardon me for thinking that, unlike ivy, I die when I become attached.” And Albert Camus: “Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.”
What do YOU think?
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Over the years, I have learned to see love, all love as the highest emotion and place from which to come.
Today I try to put into practice into every relationship the act of "unconditional love". It is very easy with someone like my husband, but a little tougher to put into practice with say co-workers. But that is my journey of love, one which I want to continue to perfect as I go.
No matter what, I highly recommend infusing love into one's life on every level. From the morning you wake up and look outside at the world, to the subway ride you take crammed against another person, to the time you come back home and look into the eyes of those dearest to you! -
The source of all misery is thinking of yourself. The source of all love is thinking of others. This is not profundity, but a daily practice for the rest of your life. If you abandon fear then love appears before you. Again, this
is nothing whatever of profound religion or philosophy, but simplicity itself.
The Count thinks this is an excellent topic for discussion.
Count Sneaky -
Love is the absence of all harm, evil intent, disharmony, untruthfulness, selfishness, sadness, worry, loneliness and all such things. It is therefore the ultimate presence of all that is good and perfect, the complete connection to all being, truth itself. Love simply is. What else is there? All else is only a lack of love.
Some call it unconditional love. It is really the only perfect state to be. To harm another I harm myself. To love another I love myself. To love all beings, all people, is to show the good we wish for ourselves. Love is the fulfillment of all lack, the missing piece of the puzzle in our hearts.
Everyone I meet, or pass in the street, I wish them joy when I see sadness, health when I see illness. When I send them this energy it comes ultimately back to me. Love is the deep desire to bring all into a state of harmony, health and wealth and love for one another. -
When I consider this question, I consider all that love is, rather than what love itself is. Then, I get overwhelmed. Maybe I'd rather not think of love as a single thing? Maybe I'd rather think of it as a multi-faceted thing of which any one facet could be considered a lump sum definition of love on its own? Yes, that's it.
On that basis, love is kind, unselfish (per Count Sneaky and jimmurdoch), forgiving, caring, considerate. -
Love maybe the joy of giving without expecting anything of it.
I feel-think love is the key, sense and nature of Everything (God, Being, Cosmos, Universe, Absolute...), because all is One and there is no separation. All is interrelated, coupled; so Love is the cohesive element, the primary and final nature and movement.
And also, love is you... and I, and he, she, them, everybody.. lets dance in the light, hahaha
Greetings and blessings,
Haver
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