2007-01-25 19:59:30 · 13 answers · asked by simon_50mb 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
No matter how intelligent, or how smart or how dynamic, we tend to think with our hearts. We might not admit at many times but we are emotional souls and thats what separates us from the animals. With all our experiences and incidents in life we are constantly judging people and creating a ideal picture of what should be there and what not. Once that picture is made or even the slightest idea is there we start looking for that ideal soul, who would complete us as a human being. We need a person who would understand us, who would believe us, trust us. And when we see a person who is having the slightest qualities of what we had thought of from time to time, and with the subtle qualities of the person itself, we love the idea of being around that person. Suddenly, the absence of the person leads to a void in our life. More we think of that person the more we are attracted to him. This is love. This is different from infatuation or attraction because infatuation and attraction are temporary phenomena and many times is dependant upon beauty. Whereas, love transcends physical beauty. It is what lies beneath ! Love helps us realise our incompleteness and gratifies our soul. Thats why we fall in love, be it with our wives, husbands, children, parents, friends, anyone.
2007-01-25 20:19:34 · answer #1 · answered by lihd 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The mind is certainly one of the vessels through which Love moves and carries life and meaning.
In that sense, love can 'affect' to be a state of Mind.
But to say it 'is' a state of Mind, is to say Love 'equals' a state of Mind: not only is this not the case but more important, would be such sorrowful and preposterous a notion. For nothing is so limitless as Love, and little in existence so limited as the Mind.
2007-01-30 20:39:25 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How are you feel right now?
Happy, sad, angry, jealous, broken-hearted or jubiliant? That exactly is your state of mind.
Though love can be a state of mind, it really is a state of being, where you 'are' love no matter what you are going through physically or emotionally, as you 'are' love in spirit.
2007-01-26 04:09:02 · answer #3 · answered by Abhishek Joshi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's feelings
It's neurochemistry
Things you might indulge in when you are alive.
To live is love each produces the other, you don't find one without the other
Live, love is all the same is just that it's not always easy to see this in action.
You see that O in the middle of the word when you activate your love that O starts to spin and when it spins a quarter way it looks like an I
IO IO IO
It elps me garden grow
Ob1
2007-01-29 21:06:09 · answer #4 · answered by old_brain 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are of course different kinds of love, which are different combinations of the following:
Charity (you have goodwill towards the person, you want them to have health, success, and a good life)
Enjoyment (you enjoy being with the person and thinking about the person, it gives you good feelings, probably because the person suits your tastes, they act in ways you like)
Emotional Attraction (instinctively you believe that interaction with the person will give you very powerful good feelings, and therefore you crave interaction with them)
Esteem (you think well of the person, you have a high opinion of them)
Intimacy (you reveal your inner self to the person, and you also learn about and try to understand their inner self; this is not just intellectual understanding of each other, but empathy, feeling what the other feels, an experiential sharing)
Trust (you believe that the person has good intentions toward you and the things you care about, and you believe the person has the competence to back up their good intentions with good actions)
Sexual Desire (you desire sexual interaction with the person, and can become sexually aroused by characteristics of the person)
Attachment (your interactions with this person have become a vital part of your life and even your identity, leaving a painful loss of those interactions lessen or cease)
Commitment/Priority (you have made a decision to interact with the person in a certain way and to give those interactions a certain priority in your life, and you will act in accordance with that)
So, to have parental love a parent has to have Charity and Commitment, and they should at least start out with Esteem. Hopefully they will also have Enjoyment as well as a certain limited level of Intimacy and a growing level of Trust. Often there will be emotional attraction, but not always. There will usually be Attachment as well, but not too much, especially as the child gets older.
To have friendship love, very close friends ought to have a pretty high level of all of them except Sexual Desire (they can have sexual desire, but it's not required for close friendship of course!)
Casual friends would at least have Charity and Enjoyment. Generally they might not think of it as love, though, but I still think it counts, because...
Even for total strangers, if you only have Charity for them, it is a kind of love. Charity, or "goodwill toward your fellow humans", is perhaps the most basic type of love, and as you can tell by the definition, it is a "will", not a "feeling". I think it is best to have Charity for all people, even people you don't enjoy or like. You can still love someone in the Charity sense even if you choose not to interact with them, if you think that maintaining interactions would do no good for either you or them.
Spouses should of course ideally have high levels of all the listed elements.
When young children love their parents, it usually includes Esteem, lots of Attachment, a fair amount of Trust, and some Charity. Quite often there is Enjoyment, Emotional Attraction, and a somewhat one-sided Intimacy as well (the child reveals more of themself to the parent than the parent does to the child). Some people theorize that at a young age there might even be a kind of "sexual" desire for the parent. Commitment/Priority, however, is pretty low in young children, as it should be.
So what is love? Many different things. A combination of other-oriented as well as self-oriented feelings, attitudes, and choices.
2007-01-26 04:53:05 · answer #5 · answered by unnua 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is what we feel when we've given over to caring about someone else more than we care about ourselves? And the state of mind when you feel it is euphoria!
2007-02-02 14:49:25 · answer #6 · answered by momof432 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is the most powerful element of all. It can cheat death, it in itself can actually be a miracle. Its an awakening that can happen at any age. Its usually the good part of life.
2007-02-01 22:45:05 · answer #7 · answered by lego 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont think love is a state of mind...i think love is a feeling that is unexplainable and you'll only know what it is when youre in it.
2007-01-26 04:08:03 · answer #8 · answered by kimberbee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Psychologically; love is an emotion we allow ourselves to feel.
To me; personally, LOVE IS :
promoting each others' well being;
be it emotionally, physically, mentally, socially, economically, religiously etc etc.
If one doesn't feel promoted in a relationship...why is one still in that relationship?
2007-02-02 22:12:47 · answer #9 · answered by missellie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no its not only state of mind. love means care....if u love someone u will must care a lot .......that's why you are loving someone..........in simple language love means care.................
2007-02-01 13:39:56 · answer #10 · answered by enjoy a 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋