What is love?

Question

It has been said that 'love can save us' and thatif 'we love each other' the world will be at peace.

But what is it and how can it helps us? Is what is being talked about Agarpe ([I hope that is how it is spelled] meaning deep friendship or alike) love or something different?

Please explain your answers.

SERIOUS ANSWERS ONLY PLEASE (with no religious quotes unless necessary please).

I thank you in advance for your insight.

Answer 1

Hello Arthur,

this is a beautiful question and I try to answer as good as I can.

I believe that love is our greatest help and our greatest saviour.
I believe that love can be focused on every thing, be it people, nature, a pet or
a task.
Loving feelings can heal us and this is scientifically proved. Not only does the Dalai Lama uses this knowledge, but modern scientists and Medical Practitioners as well. The feeling of love can lower blood pressure, reduce stress levels and builds up the immune system significantly.
Feelings of love can be even photographed. Look at the water crystall pictures of Masaru Emoto and you see the beautiful water formations when water crystalls are exposed to words or prayers or feelings of LOVE. If you want try to find this photos on the Internet.

Love can give us meaning and it can heal depression. People suffering from depression and the feeling of meaning essness, if they can access and wake up their inert love for something or someone( and indeed every human being carrys a love inside, only most never looked for it) , and if they feed that and follow this love, they will recover as they find a purpose in life.
Love has made people to heroes and survivors in the most horrid of circumstances. Look at Victor Frankl when he describes his own rescue in the book "the search for meaning" and you will understand.
And if you live in a deep dark hole, without hope if you find love to one of your neighbours you will be saved. This type of love is in my view a gift of GOD. I believe that everybody whatever age, whatever culture or education receives this gift a few times in their life. This is when a person feels deep love to another person. Be it a child, be it a parent, be it a friend or a lover and this does not exclude a sexual relationship as long as it is pure love. Pure love does not know jalousy, but only ever the well being of another person. The first sign of pure love is if you feel small and low in comparison to the one you love. With this you receive your first gift the gift of modesty and humility. Then you wish to carry the beloved one over meadows of flowers and protect him or her from all harm. The wish to serve the other rises up in you. And this wish if it is not pushed down, sets you free.
Love is the greatest gift given to us.

Answer 2

there were three catastrophes that dealt love and some other very valuable intangibles a mighty blow. those three were: the first world war, the depression (dirty thirties) and the second world war.

all of these intangibles need to be nurtured so that they are instilled into the very nature/fabric of a being. so when adults had no quality time with their children these values suffered terribly. that is, adults' time was taken up with desperate measures which entailed roof overhead and food in stomach and, for that matter, staying alive.

as for love........did i mention that it is intangible? you can't physically feel, touch or smell it. it is a feeling that you have for other beings in varying degrees.

these feelings are learnt about at different stages through life. the love that is developed with your parents in early life. sometimes you are gushing with immense enthusiasm and you just feel like you want to bust when your in their presence.

the love you develop for a best friend. you would do anything for that person and you don't know why. and when they're not available the empty void until their return. how you wouldn't let any harm happen to that person....just because and over your dead body.

then there is your sweetheart. ooooh that one is deep. this is when you don't understand the tug of war within yourself. you are scatterbrained for sure. swooning is a word that comes to mind. you know ga ga! i guess that's what cupid did with the arrows huh?
and if you find that sweetheart for life, words can't begin to describe how, at times, you almost feel that you want to physically be one with that person.

then there's the love for your offspring. and the circle is unbroken because the thing is happening all over again through a new generation.

this is just a brief expose, to be sure, but it's the best i can do in this forum.....thanks for your attention.

Answer 3

If you love someone with a real love, then you will be willing to give up your self ambitions for that person.

Love thinks not for itself or what it can gain but what is best for the other person.

Real love does not fade, if you say that you love someone and then the next day you don't, you don't know what love is. Love means that you care unconditionally even when that person has hurt you.

Love is not something you just fall into and then your out of it.
Real love takes work!

Answer 4

"Love is friendship set on fire." - unknown

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing." - Goethe

"To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia." - H.L. Mencken

"Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more." - Erica Jong

"Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions." - Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Maybe love is like luck. You have to go all the way to find it." - Robert Mitchum

"Love stretches your heart and makes you big inside." - Margaret Walker

Answer 5

Love is so hard to describe...and different for so many people that I'm not going to tell you that...

But I will tell you how love can "help us". It makes you put others before yourself, which is such a big and powerful thing when you think about humankind. To actually put yourself second, or to put all this effort into making someone else happy...that's beautiful. It's something every human should learn

Answer 6

to be honest ive never been in love. so the question throws my mind in loops..but here goes nothing. i assume that love is one of those deep sincere feelings that you feel towards someone. you take the good with the bad and even after all of it you still feel so compassionate andfull of grace with their aura. something along those lines. you can have a deep sense of strong feelings towards that person wether it be a soulmate or a family member. the person or persons become part of your world and if they were to be gone then it would leave a deep scar in your heart. hope i gave so sort of understandment...take it easy..

Answer 7

Love is the unique chemical reaction that furthers human evolution. Yes love is just a chemical reaction, but like all chemical reactions it needs a catalyst. The only limiting reactant or reagent to the chemical formulation of love is your attitude.

Answer 8

Love is an unimaginable happiness, and at the same time unimaginable agony. I suppose it's the essence of feeling alive.

Answer 9

well there is a place in the bible that says what is love but where i dont know
but love is putting the others needs before your own
simple as that

Answer 10

love is an emotion that only YOU can feel for someone else

it comes in MANY different forms