|
|
|
|
|
| What is Love??
Posted: 6/30/2006 2:11:51 PM | | I found myself on the dating scene after a long marriage,and have been pretty carefull about who i share my feelings with,In meeting different women it has been a dissapointment to find out that alot of them not all, relate to love from their past experiences, and hurts.Some feel the need to be afirmed by someone else,which also includes sex ,material things, drugs alcohol, bitterness ,and destructive patterns, everyone is special in there own right and deserves to be happy and find the love that they desire.I strongly belive that it also takes time and alot of effort to make things work.Good luck to all | |
|
| What is Love??
Posted: 6/30/2006 3:59:37 PM | i also been trying to find love, but if you can find it, let me know how and what it is, i hope that are a few good women left out there to show me,good luck to all | |
|
| What is Love??
Posted: 6/30/2006 5:07:28 PM | 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.
Love never fails.
Corinthians- Verse13 | |
|
| |
R M
|
Joined: 2/19/2006
Msg: 5 | |
| What is Love??
Posted: 7/1/2006 6:28:35 AM | | ~Jonathon~ love, I believe is the only thing you can't find on POF.Lots of people are full of love, but not willing to share it or let it go into the sea. | |
|
| What is Love??
Posted: 7/1/2006 7:10:27 AM | | Youre funny,good luck to you! | |
|
R M
|
Joined: 2/19/2006
Msg: 7 | |
| What is Love??
Posted: 7/1/2006 8:25:29 AM | | ~Jonathon~ If you forget about love, we can go fishing ..Will sure come up with a lot of fishy fish on here.All we need would be some big worms!!!!! got some? | |
|
| What is Love??
Posted: 7/1/2006 8:39:08 AM | "Love" only really exists in a metaphysical sense. In psychology, the term used for all amoration between people is "liking." When we experience liking at the same time we experience other favorable intense mental states concerning another person, we tend to label it "love."
"Emotion" is a compilated abstract term. Meaning a name given for something when this, this and this is happening at the same time.
It's like the eskimos with snow. They have some 9 or ten different words for snow. When it is humid and the snow is falling sideways, that's one thing. When it is arrid and the snow is floating down slowly, that's another thing. To us it's snowing and it is humid. They're seperate and the elements are identified individually by us. But they don't.
If a person is experiencing stress at the same time they are thinking about someone or something they don't like that is combined and called "hatred," or "anger" if is is accompanied by thoughts of actions to harm that thing or person. If we are experiencing elation at the same time we are attracted to a person and we find favor with that person we call that "love."
All "emotions" are a bunch of things happening at the same time. A state of mood (stress, anxiety or elation) accompanied by thoughts about something or someone (favor or disfavor) accompanied by an arousal state or a motivation to do something (I want to see this person, I do not want to see this person, I want to hurt this person ect). You can make any combination of these elements happen at the same time and basically make "emotions" out of them.
So basically loving someone is entirely up to the person who loves, and their interpretation of their experiences/feelings regarding another person. For instance, we often meet people, have one conversation and feel practically the same things for a person that others feel after marriage, or a long, caring relationship. But then we tell ourselves it isn't "love" because of the social definitions regarding how much time it should take. So, I'm sure if one really introspected about it they could say they love people of the opposite sex all the time.
Getting someone to "love" you is quite another matter. And one I would suggest a person who enjoys their sanity avoid thinking about too much. | |
|
| What is Love??
Posted: 7/1/2006 9:50:54 AM | Then said Almitra, "Speak to us of Love."
And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell a stillness upon them. And with a great voice he said:
When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth. Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.
He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant;
And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast.
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.
But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure,
Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor,
Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love. When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, I am in the heart of God."
And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips. | |
|
| What is Love??
Posted: 7/1/2006 6:18:32 PM | | Wow! that is an amazing Poem? Who wrote it? | |
|
| What is Love??
Posted: 10/24/2006 6:57:48 PM | It is lifted from the pages of Kahlil Gibran's "The Prophet". This book is a nice centering tool for me in may ways on many subjects. There is additional reading if you prefer. You may more of "The Prophet" here..
http://www.columbia.edu/~gm84/gibtable.html
He has also authored other significant works. You can explore them here...
http://leb.net/gibran/
I don't wish to bore you with a diatribe about life, philosophy or other such things. But if you wish after reading this I can suggest other reading material that is healthy for the mind. Such as "The Travellers Gift"
I wish you well :)
Keith | |
|
| What is Love??
Posted: 10/24/2006 9:25:43 PM | | Now you got the damn song stuck in my head..... "what is love? baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more" | |
|
| What is Love??
Posted: 10/25/2006 4:40:59 AM | Keith, don't worry about boring us. Please, suggest other works that you have found. This is delicious.
Thank you for your posting. | |
|
| What is Love??
Posted: 10/25/2006 5:14:52 AM | | yes it does take time and alot of effort, but seems like (some) guys don't want love they just want tha sex w/o tha hassle. | |
|
| What is Love??
Posted: 10/25/2006 7:11:48 AM | IF YOUR LOSING PATIENCE WITH SOMEONE,AND TIRED OF WAITING,DOES THAT MEAN YOUR FALLING OUT OF LOVE WITH THEM?????? IM SO CONFUSED AND LOST   | |
|
reg712
|
Joined: 10/17/2006
Msg: 16 | |
| What is Love??
Posted: 10/25/2006 8:52:17 AM | Good Posting that is what its all about God is LOve!!! Love for jesus you picked a good verse. may u be blessed by God. I pray when people see this they will understand LOVE.:  Reg | |
|
| What is Love??
Posted: 10/25/2006 11:00:47 AM | I can honestly say i am extremely confused about love!
I to have been through a divorce recently and just got back on the dating since. I have been debating with myself if I truly loved my ex husband. I am not sure if I loved him because he was fun to be around and was so different then the norm that I dated before. real bad boy type. Or I might have loved the stories he told believing them to be true when they were not.
I am now dating a guy who I feel something extremely strongly for and I think it is love! But it feels so much different then what I felt for my ex. I love his smile and the way he looks at me, I love his laugh and his some time literal but corny sense of humor, I love and miss his touch. I just Love the way he makes me feel when he is near or when I think of him! all happy thoughts.
With all that said I am terrified that I can not trust the way I feel. If I was wrong once could I be just jumping into another non love love. Or could I have not realy love my ex and now I love my current or Visa versa, or loved them both in different ways? LOL
his is a great question the OP asked, still haven't heard any true or real answers but I will keep look to see if some one has one!
Red
 | |
|
| What is Love??
Posted: 10/25/2006 4:18:23 PM | | Love is giving someone the power to destroy you........but trusting them not to | |
|
| What is Love??
Posted: 10/25/2006 7:13:39 PM | | Love is nothing, but it is everything. | |
|
| What is Love??
Posted: 10/27/2006 4:23:36 PM | Love is also the new Enigma CD "A Posteriori"
Flowers, Art, Music
The call of the morning lark
A smile from a stranger
Simple Kindness
Treating yourself kindly
"The Four Agreements"
Not lamenting anything in the past. It's gone.
Forgiveness
Understanding that you can not change anyone. Only yourself. | |
|
| What is Love??
Posted: 10/27/2006 10:01:17 PM | | Amen, Reg......God loves unconditionally... | |
|
| What is Love??
Posted: 10/28/2006 8:25:01 PM | Love is when you miss her even before she's gone,
When you could listen to her talk all night
And never get tired of hearing her voice,
When the sound of her name sends chills down your spine,
And when you see her smile the second you close your eyes!
When you wake up one day and realize, you can't live without her
When you wake up at night and have to be in her
When she makes you insane ... but yet you feel so good with her
When she hasn't forced you to do anything ... but you want to
When she gives your soul peace .. and your heart lust
When her laugh tickles | |
|
| What is Love??
Posted: 10/29/2006 12:02:19 AM | Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Wayne Dyer | |
|
| What is Love??
Posted: 10/29/2006 12:47:07 PM | To the post's about "what is love",,Love is romance,,and romance has two sides,,the emotional and the other the physcial,,,one without the other is never love,,,many emotions make up that side,,,the heart and mind guides that aspect,,,the other side is the physcial aspect,,,that has its own aspects,,,,like a kiss,,just to touch lips ( physcially)could be like a family reunion,,,yet with (emotion ) to drive and support the tender hunger for the emotional aspects,,,than you get a deep passion filled kiss that hungers for more,,,completes the beauty of romance,,and romance is the overall "blending of 2 mature adults",,NOT some teenage games of having to "impress each and every one different,,,just be yourself,,,
To find love,,one must be open to appreaciate it,,NOT hung up with the past,,,forget the negative,,,So what your heart may get broke,,,get up dust yourself and get on with life,,,tomorrow is a new sunrise,,,,to me secure in who you are as a person,,to be secure in your won feelings,,,who cares if you express yourself very openly,,,some I see here are so worried that something about them may surface,,,so what,,,just be yourself,,,why hide thoughts,expressions,communications,,,the person you seek will learn them in time,,,why not be PROUD of who you are,,what you offer,,,if they cannot handle it,,,so what,,,if your so worried about what they think,,,than you must be the type that changes in a phoney sence just to impress them,,,than you get hurt,,,and wonder why,,,,I had to chuckle,,,looking at profiles,,,I noticed such things missing,,,what not fill it all in,,,if you look at the profiles,, your only half looking,,,why be even affarid to express your sexuality,,,sure the question may be hard,,and in public,,,do you really think that people believe you do not enjoy your sexuality,,,,if one hides one fact,,,you can bet they hide more,,,be upfront,,be fully honest with yourself,,,other wise you only hurt yourself,,,
Life is just to wonderful to go through it trying to impress everyone,,just be yourself and be open and honest about all of you,,, | |
|
| What is Love??
Posted: 10/31/2006 2:22:10 AM | Love IS like a "pimple"!
Once you squeeze all the juice out - "it just goes away"! lol
 | |
|
|
|
Home
login 
