Please try to explain difference between LOVE and LUST. Kindly be brief.?

Answer 1

Love - based on emotions
Lust - based on physical attraction

Answer 2

Lust=Eyes, Love=Heart

Answer 3

I think the major difference between love and lust is that love can exist without passion. What I mean to say is that lust and passion are never mutually exclusive. Whenever lust is present, it is driven by passion, an all consuming, mind numbing longing for the other person. On the other hand, love can be comfortable, it can be peaceful. If you are lucky and in love passion can make an appearance at different times throughout your relationship. However, there will also be times where, though you are deeply in love, you just want to exist with that person, but have nothing to do with him (or her).

Answer 4

That would depend on what your definition of love was.

A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.

After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.

Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.

I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.

I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.

If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.

I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.

Love and blessings

Your brother
don

Answer 5

Lust is not just sex. It's the senses of the body wanting to be
stimulated. If it looks good, sounds good, feels good, do it!
Even if the end result isn't any good.
I've found that humans can experience a powerful spiritual love
for someone, and the body will react physically, because the
powerful spiritual love creates real energy!
Then they think they are having wrong desires for the same sex, or children. And can be influenced into believing they are something they are not, and they live a hellish life.
If you don't feel your physical reaction to powerful spiritual love
is you. Don't beat yourself up about it!

Answer 6

I believe they're both about desires, but the focus is what's different:

Lust focuses on selfishness...self. Fulfilling your own wants (and needs?) for your own sake.

Love focuses on the othe person...it's sacrificial. Fulfilling the wants and needs of somebody else for their sake.

Lust could also be disguised as love by the feelings & understood reason for it. For example, many people take on what's called "The Savior Role", which is where you see somebody with a need, and become what that person needs in order to help them also often believing that you're the only one who can (can you hear the theme song? "da-da-da-daaaaaaaa! Here I come to save the day!") But though it appears (even to you) that you're helping them , you are in fact helping yourself because you're receiving the feeling of worthiness by it...your life now has meaning...and this is action through selfishness...b/c if you turn them down in their time of need, then you feel worthless.

Answer 7

Love comes from the heart. It is emotional and unconditional. You love some one as you love your Mother who gave you life and took care of you when you were an infant and helpless to care for yourself, who taught you how to care for yourself and raised you to be an adult. Who Never ever turned her back on you. Some of us were not so lucky to have the ideal Mother, but some of us have adopted Mothers who fulfilled this role. Above all, you wish to give this kind of love to the person you are "in love with".

Lust is physical attraction, and cannot meet the qualifications mentioned above. It is for self satisfaction only.

Answer 8

From Wikipedia -

"Lust is any intense desire or craving, usually sexual, although it is also common to speak of a "lust for life", "lust for blood (bloodlust for short)", or a "lust for power" or other goals.

As a sexual term, lust implies a sexual desire in and of itself, an erotic arousal and wish, or intense physical or sexual attraction or craving. In this sense, it is considered a sin by some Christian sects in regard to someone not one's spouse, and is listed as one of the seven deadly sins of Catholicism and its related denominations. Kam, a concept in Sikhism often translated as lust, is similarly included as one of the Five Evils. The Greek word which translates as lust is επιθυμια (epithumia), which also is translated as covet."

Given this definition, lust would equate with an extreme "want" or "desire" whereas love is the exact opposite, in my humble opinion. Love is a verb not a noun. Love is active and seeks to help, aid and support the "other," the one loved. Romantic love is the same only with the addition of physical sexual expression. It also seeks to please the "other" over self. Lust desires to please the self first.

Answer 9

Love is a concern for an other that places them in a position of being more important to you than you are to yourself. Lust is the desire to satisfy a sexual urge. If you can't understand that difference then you are NOT ready for any interpersonal contacts... Jim

Answer 10

Love-is when you know everything there is about a person, good and bad and still want to be with them without trying to change them in any way because your life is better with them and because they make you strive to be a better you yet love you for who you are.

Lust-is a physical, chemistry reaction to someone for their sexual promise. It has nothing to do with real love though IF you already love someone it can heighten your lust for that person simply because you are more attracted to them in general.

Answer 11

Lust is using anther's or your own body for self gratification purposes and Love is giving your body to the other partner forever for their purpose as the missing piece to his/hers puzzle with the complete picture being a new creation.