What does it mean to love? To love ....
 

What does it mean to love?

"To love means to serve, to give."
B.D.


(I've read about Love (its Divine meaning) a lot and keep finding new uplifting thoughts. This one though really gives me an impulse in my life.)

Blessings

What does it mean to Love? Meaning you give to Love is dependent on your state of consciosness. Love is a feeling and if you have not experienced this feeling then you may not realy understand what it means. Conceptualy it can be described as bond of oneness. Degree of love can vary from "acceptance of an object to be as it is" to "be one with it". "To serve or to give without expecting anything in return " can also be described as love. But if you expect something in return to your service then it is not love, then it is a bargain or business. God is described as Love because it unites everything that exists. Human ego makes it diffecult to love. Actualy human beings are combination of form and formless or love. So humans have a capacity to love and at the same time have capacity to analyze. Love unites and it arises from formless or life. Mind divides and leads to differentiation of everything that if perceives. Eventhough mind and life are opposing functions, they exist simultanously at the same place in human beings. If we are living predominantly from mind then we have less capability to love. This is the case with most of humanity. If we are living our life predominantly from life or formless then we are more capable to love. If we are living from formless then mind becomes the servant of formless and is not much of a problem. Otherwise mind moves our life between pleasure and pain. Actually more of pain than pleasure. It is little pleasure or hope of pleasure that keeps us going. Some persons have love in one aspect of their life and they can achieve great fame in those aspects of their life. It is usually found in artists such as painters, singers etc.

Love is life. Love is God. Love is foundation of life. Love is all that is. We can describe love in so many ways.

Oh yes, to love is to serve, to give - to accept, to open, to create. :hug3:

I think the Greek words for love describe it pretty well. There are so many types of love and these four words sum them up very well, at least for me:

Agápe: mean unconditional love. It refers to a general affection or deeper sense of "true love" rather than mere infatuation. Agape is used to describe sacrificial love.

Éros: is passionate love, with sensual desire and longing, It can denote "intimate love;" but does not have to be sexual in nature.

Philia: means friendship, a virtuous love, a concept developed by Aristotle. It includes loyalty to friends, family, and community, and requires virtue, equality and familiarity. It denoted a general type of love.

Storge: means "affection". It is natural affection, like the feeling a parent has for their child.

This information is found on Wikiepedia and it is much more in-depth there.

I live in the Southern USA and here we say 'love you' to friends, children, family members, we can say, 'I love that food' or 'I love that car' a variety of different things. I was surprised when I began meeting people from all over the world, surprised that other cultures do not do this. I am not criticizing in any way; I am just making a statement about this. I learned that in some cultures they only have one word for love and it is used only in regards to love between a man and a woman. After learning this information I began learning about the way the word was used in ancient times and I found that my perception of love most closely relates to the words the Greek used for Love.
Thank you Love Wisdom Truth for beginning this thread. It is an interesting subject.

Peace and Light,
SC

Sometimes, love hurts. :icon_frown:

"When one is full of love they can do nothing else but serve god; for god is love"

- Jesus, from the Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ

Often people like to say 'who you really are' or tell that 'you are awareness' or 'you are love itself'.

Sounds nice and it gives the impression they know something, but in fact it only draws attention to them demonstating how spiritual they are.

Love is problematic when one is led to believe he lacks it in comparison to those make such overt demonstrations.

What is felt heartfully is love so don't let romanisized spiritual nicities distract from that.

Yeah, I really sorta get that, Gem..........It's like when in the Bible, it talks about the pharisees and priests and how they would pray openly/in public and make a showy display of their supposed piety.

It's not love that hurts but what often goes along with it from the human mind.


Xan

Or like Jesus when he said, "I and my father are one" and "I am the way, the truth and the life" or the Buddha when he said, "I am awake."

Like a friend of mine often says... "I'm just being honest." :wink:


Xan

Hi,
Saying that love sometimes hurts, is like saying Life is sometimes tough.

Life is not tough.
Life is Life --- pure and pristine.

Love does not hurt.
Love is pure and sublime.


What is it that is tough?

What is it that hurts?

Therein lies Wisdom - deep and withstanding wisdom and insight.

Separate these things and and it is like separating salt from water ---
invaluable.
:smile:



(Where do I come up with these things....?)

very very good Xan, for it is in the seat of your heart you will find the greatest part of you

its been a while since we last spoke, bless you

Thanks Xan and Miss H - very good explanations. :smile:

What does it mean to Love? well, I would suppose it doesn't mean anything.

Maybe Love simply comes after meanings fall away.

So when I'm happy and joyful and just doing it then whatever's in front of me is that... that is.

Hon........I think you just topped their explanations.:angel5:
:hug3:

*shrug* Sounded closer to just 'Be-ing' to me. Love is the source of the Be-ing IMO, and the stage upon which it all plays.

Oh, YOU shrug! Who the H cares anymore? I'm very tired of the dueling love-experts around here~causing more trouble than it's worth. Far from my idea of demonstrating love or it's nearest cousin.

Sounded closer to just 'Be-ing' to me. Love is the source of the Be-ing IMO, and the stage upon which it all play.

I'll top you then, Humm... :wink:

Love is Being... no difference except in our perception.


Xan

...and the universe Be-ing... ?

:wink:

So sorry SG - I was mistaken.

Greetings..

Please be careful, SG.. the last thing a Mutual Admiration Society tolerates, is non-admiration..

Be well..

Heart blessings to you, heart. :smile:


Xan

I hear the disagreement, Silvergirl, and I think I generally understand what people are saying.

It does feel good when someone is aware in universal love and pure being as I am, but I'm not looking for 'agreement'.

I'm expressing myself from my own experience, like everyone is... except my experience of life happens to be pretty unusual.

But my question is more about you and what bugs you about that.


Xan

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is what is referred to as, a burn.
The modern vernacular of "reality check"
As Lester Burnham would say, "Spectacular !"
And firing off a reality check can be an act of love because one doesn't want their brother or sister to remain in illusion.

It seem to me you fish them out of shallow pools.

Okay I'll try again...

What does it mean to love?

This time I'll take the question as a "when this happens what else happens"

When you are in Love the self disappears, the ego takes a back seat and might even lose it's grip and the need to take any position doesn't even come near being relevant. I suppose one could call it being or sharing or whatever but the simple timelessness of those moments makes any need to measure it or make sense of it somewhat meaningless.

So, to me, it's one of those feelings that you don't recognise till it's gone and when it's happening you don't care what it's called.

And ,dare I say it, the simple fact that we're here discussing it means we're not in it.

We have to suspend Love to be sitting here typing, unless we're channeling... oh, it can be close by and an easy hop back too but if you're here typing it's a remembered thing.

I think that's what gets Silvergirl a little annoyed and it gets me a little annoyed here sometimes too. We are all sitting in front of computers with our minds working to create analytical responses... There's no other way to be here.

Last time I was at the 'puter shop the choice of chairs to sit in didn't include little fluffy floating clouds and modems didn't include an option for a usb link to ones heart.

I don't mean no disrespect Mr. I - but it's just that my view is that the reason we are able to do anything is because of the love of the Creator - and that we in turn are an extension of that.

Sometimes we are in a conscious space that includes that, and sometimes not. I'm just saying don't make the mistake of thinking it's absent because you are free to do other things - you are free because of that love, even if you aren't in that conscious space.

Just my beliefs, just my view.

Greetings..

Hi Mr. I: Some people use the word 'Love' in whatever manner suits their intentions, disregarding any common understandings, or.. without any intention to relate on any level other than the one they choose as their own.. yes, they can congratulate themselves for their uncompromising values, though..

Be well..

Xan, you are someone who is in that conscious space most of the time - that is why I value your presence.

Look at some of the earlier posts today - I say something someone doesn't like, and some others just pile on me - remember the topic title? Such irony!

Funny, that.

Nah we're with you Humm, and with everyone else. Personally I like stirring.

Shoulda left well enough alone I guess but I was rootin' for Silver.

Love is smilin' at the homeless person 'cause no one will see them. It's not a duty but something that wells up from inside that needs to be done... or is that compassion?

Like the divine love that is behind all the good things is all well and good but I question where our inner reserves end and in the face of anger and frustration in others and danger to ourselves... can we still find the love?

I suppose we can.

But not typing...apparently.
It means this...it doesn't mean anything...please make up your mind so I can understand your position.

=^..^= =^..^=

Let me apologize, again.

I must say though I feel my post was misunderstood.

I did NOT mean to 'stir'. I meant ONLY to post MY thought on your thought.

I'm guessing the *shrug* I preceded my comment with was taken as a dismissal of your thought, when what was intended was actually to try to minimize my own.

Interesting it touched off such a powder keg.

Can someone explain to me how that is so, that an off-hand comment STRICTLY expressing MY pov set off such an explosion? Did you all really feel that I dissed SG and Mr. I that much? :confused:

Let's look at that again, now that we have some distance:


Please educate me. :icon_frown:

Do you accept the common understanding of love?

Do you relate to more levels than just your own?

Do you compromise your values?

Love is a connection.
We watch people die evryday and all we can muster is a sigh,
our pets died and we cried for a week, why?
Because we are connected to our pets more than to the suffering world
the measure of our love will depend to the measure of our conne tion to life and all things
and the measure oof our connection to all things depends on our awareness to oneness of all things
the measure of oneness awreness is inversely proportional to the awareness of ones sense of self.

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