2006-11-05 23:13:08 · 17 answers · asked by venus 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I doubt this will get best answer, but this is my honest answer. I'm not going to argue the details, but rather just offer what I believe is the case.
Pure love is the inherent nature of Reality.
All other forms of love are a "remembering", as it were, of our home. (You can never actually leave Reality.) Most human beings and animals live through ideas (yes, animals live through rudimentary "ideas"), and living through ideas create a kind of shadow of reality. When we experience love, essentially what is happening is that a bit of light is shining through the darkness.
Reality is One, so to speak, and love is felt to the degree in which oneness is felt. When we love a child or a lover, for example, initially perhaps their beauty reminds us of ourselves. Not our apparent self, but our deeper, real nature that we have forgotten. We thus seek to become one with the object of love, which is why very few people, if any, who fall in love do not desire to be one with the loved person. When there is a physical object that we love, such as a car, we desire to possess it, to be one with it.
Passionate love, or romantic love, is a clear example of the desire to become One with another. But family love, or love for friends or community or nation are all also forms of love. These loves are naturally present to the extent in which we feel that the loved ones are an extension of ourselves. So we love our parents, not someone elses, we love our children, not someone elses, we love our nation, not someone elses, we love our ideas, and all to the extent in which each of these are extensions of ourselves (at one with us). We love them, because we already feel more at one with them than we do with other things.
Incidentally, what we hate is those things that we feel the least identification, or oneness, with. Those things can include things within ourselves, things we struggle to disidentify with. When we learn to embrace these split parts of ourselves as parts of ourselves, we naturally come to love them (even if they are ugly), which leads to healing. It also leads to the ability to love a wider embrace of people, because if you can love the flaws in yourself, then it allows you to relate more easily to the flaws in others, and relating to others is to find a degree of oneness with them (and thus a degree of love for them).
So pure love is pure Oneness, which is the true nature of all that is. Which is why the great saints and sages have the most love, because they have gotten closest to the realization that all things are really One. In otherwords, love is the feeling of Truth, it is the Truth, and the extent to which we love is the extent to which we have opened our eyes.
2006-11-05 23:44:21 · answer #1 · answered by Nitrin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This answer is in relative terms and within humanistic limitations, not some fantasy read out of a fictional romance book-which are views sadly partaken by selected persons around this world we live in. Parental, familial love is probably the closest, I believe, humans can reach towards that 'pure love' that is being questioned. I view 'pure love' as something that God, or a god, may have toward creation and evolution of said creation. Something Universal and all-encompassing, that we as humans can only think about, but have no capacity in actually feeling, because love is about feeling, isn't it? Even that Godly love presents itself with conflictions, like the selfishness a creator may have upon its created. . .PURE LOVE shall have no conflicts, conditions, predispositions, predilections, and preferences. As humans, we are all tainted with the abilities to discern for those qualifiers. PURE LOVE is perfection. Cheers, GNF
2016-05-22 03:23:13 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pure love is blind. Someone is willing to do something for another without thinking twice. Pure love comes 100% from the heart. No thinking at all.
2006-11-05 23:15:18 · answer #3 · answered by Adam 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
An idea of Pure love is..
2006-11-06 02:26:14 · answer #4 · answered by l♠dy de♠th 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you can't define pure love. It is beyond the boundary of explanation, it can only be felt from your heart.
2006-11-06 00:45:36 · answer #5 · answered by goodbye 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Pure love is merely the emotion of love. It has no substance because it is just the emotion unrefined and uncontrolled. There is no basis of relationship, sexual attraction, money, or any other kind. Basically it is reasonless love.
2006-11-05 23:35:10 · answer #6 · answered by The One Truth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love must possess the following four characteristics to be pure
unselfish
beyond reason
metaphysical
everlasting.
2006-11-05 23:22:52 · answer #7 · answered by small 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
true love does exist but not 100% pure.
2006-11-05 23:16:03 · answer #8 · answered by GLADIATOR 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
When one cares and enjoys a person. The relationship held is plutonic and there is not lust between the two. One usually sees it in children when they are close to certain individuals.
2006-11-05 23:24:33 · answer #9 · answered by smelly pickles 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
100% selfless. It is not a door mat but pure love is selfless.
2006-11-05 23:22:40 · answer #10 · answered by Today is the Day 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋