What is LOVE to you ?

 LOVE is something that I feel it's not easy to explain. However,   It is unconditional, selfless  act.  When your really in LOVE I guess you will feel it with all your being : )

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 Love is a feeling you get when you care about someone so much that you put them first. You want to make them happy and love them no matter what they do. I'm no expert o.k

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I like Marcia's answer, having a desire and willingness to put the other before yourself. If both sides feel and act as such, you're bound to have a solid relationship.

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Giving of ones self, time, energy, or possessions of free will, without expectation, without developing entitlement or imposing attachement, solely for the purpose of helping the recipient attain positive benefits such as joy, pleasure, healing, peace.

Not being an expert either, this spirit struggles to achieve this.

Love and Light

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The Philosophy of Sex and Love

Ah, here's an ambiguous topic for ya: the philosophy of sex and love.  Its one that no single mind, no matter how great, can possibly comprhend to some sort of sufficient whole.  There are always answers left unanswered, just as there are questions, left unasked.  It is in my ever humble opinion that we all feel love differently.  We all experience sex (sometimes coined physical love) differently. 

Though, at the end of it all, how can I assume that we do; feel these things differently?  It could be that we are merely incapable of expressing them similarly; the feelings and the acts of love being principly the same for each and everyone of us; being, no different, asides from the way in which we voice them.

  Are we to assume that human chemistry effects us all in like-wise manner…the feelings and acts of love towards one and other being pre-calculated reactions -such as the boiling point of water- set in stone and excluded from possible deviation?  

Only half of what anyone says on the subject can ever be true.  One cannot take sex and love as purely physical -and ignore the spiritual.  One, vice versa, cannot claim the feelings of love, lust and desire as plainly disembodied aspects of the spirit or soul, as there is undeniable chemistry existing within us, as patterns and bilogical logic, that occur whenst such feelings are present.  I am no scientist, so I can't -when indicating documented proof- provide you all with the terms and accuracies of the research, but the science exists, none the less.

Back in the day, before (some say) things became complicated, the human race “had sex” merely in the name of procreation.  Or did they?  Is that another one of these things, whesnt typing this, that I cannot for one moment assume whilst continuing to consider myself a logical thinker?  Ofcourse it is.  People would not have sex if it were not enjoyable.  Mother nature had to find some way of making it enjoyable, otherwise noone would have done it…and none of us would be here now, reading or writing. 

What I've been wandering is -based solely on my unwavering opinion that one cannot make love (have sex) with a partner he or she does not truly love, trust, care-for unequivocally- is did that, what I have just deemed to be neccissery, hold a bearing on our distant ancestors when it came to producing more offspring? 

There have been studies, much like the ones hinted at above, that have come to the conclusion that there are even hormones and chemicals and genes which activate areas of our brain in order to make the actual position of being a parent enjoyable.  There are processes that exist within us, mentally and physically, that make both conception, pregnancy (the dealing with which, both man and woman) aswell as the actual giving birth: pleasurable.  After all, who would love and care for a child on the face of this earth, in the face of this race, if not the parents?  Therefore, as I've stated, mother nature stepped in once more to make it a positive thing within us.  

The study to which I am indicating, in conjunction with others, no doubt, also concluded that these chemical reactions, if you will, are more potent, more, poignant and useful for getting the job done (for, making a parent love and care for his or her child) if said child was concieved through actual love!  Yes!  If a child is concieved through love, through the act of love, between to persons who love and admire everything about each other, the child will be born into this world much healthier, much more mentally agile and loving him/her self, than they would have been had they been concieved by two persons drunken and fumbling in the closet during a staff christmas party.  Infact, the same studies have gone as far as to show that such people, whom concieved their child through the likes of a “one night stand” or and “adultrous affair” where sufficiently lacking in these chemicals (sometimes, so much so that they had none at all) and were, themselves, in a worse state than they would have been had they been in love.

But am I really just stating the obvious here?  Are these chemical signatures possibly the physical apparitions and/or energies of something much more divine in us?  Are they possibly the material, bilogical manifestations of the higher-power we know and coin love? Maybe so.  

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Well that was pretty insightful although I do not agree with the philosophy totally… Let’s not confuse Love with Sex… For starters I don’t think those Adult Film entertainers actually love each other (I’m 100% sure of it)… I do agree that once the mental/spiritual aspect of love is achieved between a couple, the physical aspect is heightened to another level which can not be achieved if the first did not exsist..

As for children I think that is totally off base.. Most children I think if we study closely who grew up with love in the household wether it be from one parent or both (which is best) will develop these hormones you speak of… Today’s society is a bad example and case study, b/c the traditional family values are lost.. This is the age of baby mommas and baby daddy’s. In addition look at the current divorce rate.. its staggering in the negative direction.. There is a reason for that.. I will save that for my blog :-)

I think the aspect of love the unconditional selfless act is in fact conditional.. based on a series of events the leads to the selflessness.. a more cause & effect if you will. I personally no one is capable of love if they in fact don’t love themselves and who they are. Once that exsists the rest is up to God’s Choas Theory… ;-)

Great Blog

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Love is……………..

going to a baseball game when you'd rather be shopping

listening patiently to an opinion you completely disagree with

giving someone a gift with intentions of giving, not receiving

standing up for someone even-though you know their wrong

sending flowers to someone for no reason except to make them smile

risking your life to save someone elses

spending days in a hospital room talking to someone who is unconscious

being with someone and wanting or needed NOTHING from them

I believe love runs around, in and through us continually. It's whether or not we open our hearts enough to let it shine through. I think it's about more than intimate couples and physical expression. It's about letting the old lady cut in front of you in the line at the grocery store. Sure, we can be “in love” with someone we are attracted to (for the moment), but it seems their are many shades of grey to love. At many moments in my life I feel like I AM LOVE. Is it possible that love is something we choose to practice rather than randomly feel? Or both?

Much LOVE peeps!;)

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What is love to me? Love is never having to ask why because the intent behind every action is genuine. Love is being the ultimate of everything. Love is a continuous journey that grows with every step you make from the heart.

Thanks for the invite!!!!

Corey

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Posted by Apple 07.21.2006 04:53:00 to love you

*to love you is to ……..feel you whether you're there or not
*to love you is to ……..smell you all around
*to love you is to ……..see you smiling in each corner
*to love you is to………hear your voice in empty spaces
*to love you is to………talk and know you're listening
*to love you is to feel ……. your pain
*to love you is to see ……. you
*to love you is to ache ….. for you
*to love you is to take you …… knowing
*to love you is to watch you…. as you do
*to love you is…….not to have to be with you
*to love you is…….not to follow you
*to love you is…….learning from you
*to love you is…….to watch you learn
*to love you is…….to dance with you
*to love you when you're not there

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LOVE QUIZ

Love Quiz
Adapted from Dr. Buscaglia's book Born for Love
(1992, SLACK Incorporated)

When you take the Love Quiz below, you will receive a customized affirmation statement, showing you your loving strengths and pointing out ways in which you can show even more love toward others. You can print out your statement for frequent reference… and re-take the quiz any time. Remember, this is one quiz you can never fail!


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Asking yourself questions and answering them honestly is a good path to self-knowledge. In keeping with this idea, I'd like to propose a few end-of-the-day questions for each of us…

Is anyone a little happier because I came along today?
Yes No

Did I leave any concrete evidence of my kindness, any sign of my love?
Yes No

Did I try to think of someone I know in a more positive light?
Yes No

Did I help someone to feel joy, to laugh, or at least, to smile?
Yes No

Have I attempted to remove a little of the rust that is corroding my relationships?
Yes No

Have I gone through the day without fretting over what I don't have and celebrating the things I do have?
Yes No

Have I forgiven others for being less than perfect?
Yes No

Have I forgiven myself?
Yes No

Have I learned something new about life, living or love?
Yes No



Born for Love copyright © 1992 by Leo F. Buscaglia. All rights reserved.
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Letting go of any attachment to anything or one and just letting creation / life/ you / me / everything….. BE.

Love and Light

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Love is clear a pure flowing stream. I’m here because of love. Love is the foundation of the universal mind of creation. May we all find healing through love for love is the supreme vibration of nature.

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This is my answer to that age old question.

Knowing  your self in others.

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The one other most important note about Love.

Love does not turn on and off.

If you stop loving someone then you never did.

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Maybe. Or maybe lovew dies after being manipulated and lied to and lied to and manipulated by the seemingly innocent looking and sounding ones, and oh, love is true lasts eternally. BUT IF it is meant to be it will

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Well there is Love of Self, Character, and Experience. The self never changes, but character and experience does. So sure when what was is no more so is gone the the “love” for it.

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MEOW : O  = I want to LOVE you for You : )

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You know when you feel it
You know when it hits you
There's no mistake when you fall
You don't anticipate it
You can calculate it
It just comes crashing through your walls

You lose all sense of reason
You have no sense of danger
It's like you're living in a dream.
It lets you float through crowds and
Makes you smile at strangers
It's just the greatest state of being, Oohh…

I'll love you 'til the sky falls down
I'll love you 'til I can't feel anything,
Not anything at all
Even when you're not around
I'll love you 'til the sky falls down
I'm flying 'til I hit the ground
And lying there and I don't feel anything
Not anything at all
And even when you're not around
I'll love you til the sky falls down.

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Love is a feeling that defies logic,it exceeds all expectations,it is something that blindsides everyone,has no boundaries,from which creation is born.

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For me, love comes in different forms.

I think it can be the type of love you have for family and friends - caring and kind. It can also be obsessive, and all-consuming, like you feel it is taking over your whole being.

Nicky x