what is love?

Question

Can u really define "love"?

Answer 1

This story shows real love...Let me know what you think!!!

A farmer had some puppies he needed to sell.
He painted a Sign advertising the 20 pups. And set about nailing it to a post on the edge of his yard. As he was driving the last nail into the post, he felt a tug on his overalls. He looked down into the eyes of a little boy.
"Mister," he said, "I want to buy one of your puppies."
"Well," said the farmer, as he rubbed the sweat of the back of his neck, "These puppies come from fine parents and cost a good deal of money."
The boy dropped his head for a moment. Then reaching deep into his pocket, he pulled out a handful of change and held it up to the farmer. "I've got thirty-nine cents. Is that enough to take a look?" "Sure," said the farmer. And with that he let out a whistle "Here, Dolly!" he called. Out from the doghouse and down the ramp ran Dolly followed by four little balls of fur.

The little boy pressed his face against the chain link fence. His eyes danced with delight. As the dogs made their way to the fence, the little boy noticed something else stirring inside the doghouse. Slowly another little ball appeared, this one noticeably smaller. Down the ramp it slid. Then in a somewhat awkward manner, the little pup began hobbling toward the others, doing its best to catch up.
"I want that one," the little boy said, pointing to the runt. The farmer knelt down at the boy's side and said, "Son, you don't want that puppy. He will never be able to run and play with you like these other dogs would."
With that the little boy stepped back from the fence, reached down, and began rolling up one leg of his trousers. In doing so he revealed a steel brace running down both sides of his leg attaching itself to a specially made shoe. Looking back up at the farmer, he said, "You see sir, I don't run too well myself, and he will need someone who understands."

Huggs and Kisses,,,,

Lonnie

Answer 2

This definition would mean nothing unless experienced . But it stays, nevertheless ! Love is the ability to see everything around as a part of ourselves...
The only concession, that too... perhaps.... just perhaps..., is that this experience could be proportional to whatever begins to seem as a part of oneself. A suggested example, is a feeling that a mother experiences about a new born baby, and those moments when the love flows out like a fountain during the time the mother feeds the baby, is just an indicative example !

And, with a little dilution, what people practically argue in favour of , what they are very sure of , as love, is just the phenomenon where, "logical mind gets switched off, when love gets switched on" !

Answer 3

Love is a condition or phenomenon of emotional primacy, or absolute value. Love generally includes an emotion of intense attraction to either another person, a place, or thing; and may also include the aspect of caring for or finding identification with those objects, including self-love. Love can describe an intense feeling of affection, an emotion or an emotional state. In ordinary use, it usually refers to interpersonal love, an experience usually felt by a person for another person. Love is commonly considered impossible to define.

The concept of love, however, is subject to debate. Some deny the existence of love. Others call it a recently invented abstraction, sometimes dating the "invention" to courtly Europe during or after the middle ages (though this is contradicted by the sizable body of ancient love poetry). Others maintain that love really exists, is not an abstraction, but is indefinable; being a quantity which is spiritual, metaphysical, or philosophical in nature. Some psychologists maintain that love is the action of lending one's "boundary" or "self esteem" to another. And others attempt to define love and apply the definition to everyday life.

Answer 4

Well, that depends on how you define "define". One can experience love, one can strive to "be" love, but one can not capture and put walls around love. Love just is. Love is Holy Spirit, how do you define the Holy Spirit? It just is. What one can do is sing HU to open your heart to Love and then experience love.

You are invited to try this simple spiritual exercise. It has help people of many different faiths open their hearts more fully.

To do the exercise, first get comfortable. Close your eyes, and take a few deep breaths. Next, gently put your attention on you
inner visual screen, where daydreams and images come to you.
With your eyes closed, sing HU (pronounced like the word hue) as a song of love.

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Answer 5

YES..

The definition is "TRUST" not just any trust mind you...
It is the trust that is not to be found in normal relationships.

Relationships are made up love, but not TRUE LOVE.
Is SEX love...? No... SEx is SEX, but a certain amount of love is required for this transaction to take place. ie: If you hate someone, then SEX cannot and should not take place.

But Sex is not love itself... Only that to have SEX you need some love... Why Some love... Well because LOVE comes in amounts. TRUE love is the ultimate in love.

It is almost never present in couples. This is a LOVe of un-conditional magnitude ! It is the love a Child has for a Parent. A mother would die for her child, and the child knows this, and it is TRUE, and it will always be TRUE LOVE !

Relations are a fight for survival... Nature forcing us to have SEX and to share our passion. It has love in it sure... For without it ...we cannot have SEX.

But all is not lost... TRUE love makes its way back to us in the reward of a Son or Daughter that looks just like us, and acts like us, and loves us.

THIS IS WHERE YOU FIND TRU LOVE.

So scratch and bite you way though life and seek that one person you will love, or love to hate, and get that child because it's there that you will find the TRUE part of love, and it will find you.

8-)

Answer 6

Love is "the condition in which another person's happiness is essential to your own." R.A. Heinlien in A Stranger In A Strange Land

Answer 7

Can't fully define it.....But for me LOVE is seeing my loved one happy, taking care of their happiness, not hurting them & caring for their soul.

Answer 8

Love is an unreachable sense of freedom.

Answer 9

http://www.oxytocin.org/oxytoc/love-science.html

Answer 10

It's an emotion, a feeling of deep care for someone or something.