2007-03-02 12:17:57 · 17 answers · asked by Giggly Giraffe 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Too many good answers … I can’t pick ONE “Best“ from the bunch!!!
Have fun voting!
2007-03-03 07:24:04 · update #1
Love is a concept, not a physical force. Therefore, it bears no composition and does not need to be 'stored'.
2007-03-02 12:20:35 · answer #1 · answered by Theophile 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You create it as you use it.
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
2007-03-03 10:41:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it is not fully used, then it is not fully love. There are no restrictions nor boundaries for the real sense of love...that's why it's so dangerous to be "in love" with someone or to "love" someone.
As societyy keeps changing (unfortunately more so for the worse than the greater), societ has made an acceptance to conditional love...it's become so commonplace that it's oxymoronic to say to someone that they are loved "unconditionally".
It's no new revelation: society has always been this way...with the Information Society we're in, more negativity is known throughout than simply within the confines of a specific region. These things have caused society to over-scrutinize one another which brings about doubt which brings about a lack of...
Your true & full love should be for yourself and for mankind as a whole...if it is not, then where your love is is where you'll find that hiding spot.
2007-03-02 20:31:16 · answer #3 · answered by R C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is a many splendid constituent of human Spirit, not a single being of human being but a family of kindness. Our strength from it is not constant as our consciousness is not constant. It is a synchronization for picture-thought and other sense thoughts with the Spirit that form our notion of a person, an other. It is not a purified substance but is in confluence with all other constituents and substance of human spirit in its sense. All of the constituents of the spirit is the infinite side of human finitely being.
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ol/ol_phen.htm
"1. Our ordinary Knowing has before itself only the object which it knows, but does not at first make an object of itself, i.e., of the Knowing. But the whole which is extant in the act of knowing is not the object alone, but also the Ego that knows, and the relation of the Ego and the object to each other, i.e. Consciousness. "
The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.
2007-03-02 20:49:38 · answer #4 · answered by Psyengine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it lives as a seed in the pit of your heart and can only grow when cultivated in just the right way. It occasionally manifests itself as frustration, because it wants to grow, but for some unknown reason it can't. Like a flower in your garden, it can flourish and bloom, but will die quickly without the nutrients it needs to survive.
2007-03-03 11:40:46 · answer #5 · answered by al b 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah, that's the secret of love, if you don't use love it goes away. It can't be stored. When you share the love you have you get more love in return, but try and store it for a "rainy day" and it won't be there.
2007-03-02 20:23:31 · answer #6 · answered by V 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Love has its own boundless volume. It exists within us and around us. It is in the very fabric of the building atoms of the earth - palpable, real, surrounding us, enveloping us, in the very air we breathe. Always just waiting for us to tap into it - to draw it into us and never ever runs out. tydg.
2007-03-02 23:47:41 · answer #7 · answered by concernedjean 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being stored would suggest that it is locked up.
Its not locked up, its free floating everywhere ready and waiting to be taken whenever we want and recognise it.
2007-03-05 18:25:00 · answer #8 · answered by just me 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's like asking where the light is kept in a bulb when it's not turned on.
2007-03-02 20:20:45 · answer #9 · answered by kirun 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It isn't there until you fall in love, then your body starts producing the essence of love in overtime. That's why love is so exhausting.
2007-03-02 20:26:14 · answer #10 · answered by mina_lumina 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋