Why do they say Love is from the heart, when it's really what you feel. Why is it that the heart skips, but it's just a feeling. Our heart beats but it doesn't tell us who to love. So, why do they say love is from the heart?
2007-01-20 07:15:00 · 9 answers · asked by Candy_T 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
...because the heart is the lifeforce of our bodies & when we truly love someone with our minds it feels just as integral to our existence as the organ that sustains us.
2007-01-20 07:26:09 · answer #1 · answered by iNeviTable fuTure 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe that when the mind contemplates the meaning of love, it instinctively goes towards the heart. If your heart 'skips a beat', for instance if you find that you are attracted to someone, then it means they were somehow stimulating to you, and your mind specifically. When you start to contemplate the meaning of life, and that concludes with love, or something to do with love, you'll notice that your mind naturally wants to be rested in the heart. 3000 year old Hindu philosophy states that the Lord is enshrined in the hearts of all beings, and when you meditate on this you will feel your mind and the presence of mind in your heart.
2007-01-20 07:36:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that love comes from the appendix, but i belive old costumes put the idea of love in the heart because the heart is the most important part of the inner body
2007-01-20 07:24:36 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course we now understand the brain and hormones control emotional feeling. I wonder why the heart was used for this analogy?
I suspect it is because the heart is the only organ that can be heard. It was known before any other organ. It is the pulse of life and life is the pulse of love. Pure theory on my part.
2007-01-20 07:21:28 · answer #4 · answered by Mere Mortal 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the seat of the emotions is the heart in this part of the world. Why else would people say to put your heart in your work?
2007-01-20 07:52:51 · answer #5 · answered by girlshadow212 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, ancient cultures believed that the heart was the seat of life. The mind, to them, was simply something you used to do practical things, like math and physics and stuff like that. But decisions pertaining to real life (like which road to take in life, which religion to follow, or which woman to marry, and really important stuff like that), according to them, were made by the heart. It is just a way of thinking. You could just as well say that love comes from between the legs. But then, you would have to hear Crazy Jane say: "Love has pitched his tent/In the mansion of excrement." (W.B. Yeats)
2007-01-20 07:32:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anpadh 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hormones do all kinds of weird things to our heart. When were are "in love" the hormones make our heart beat faster which affects our breathing making us lightheaded and so on ad nausem. We feel the most alarming effect in our heart.
2007-01-20 12:14:23 · answer #7 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because they don't know any better
2007-01-21 02:10:40 · answer #8 · answered by jamie F. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dunno but i think other cultures thought it came from other places
2007-01-20 07:23:09 · answer #9 · answered by waiting for the world to change 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋