what is the definition of love?

Answer 1

Be blessed not to define IT...It had been said Love cannot be judged, right? When you attempting to define it, you judge...as a result Love appear for you exactly as you define it ...Love is not what we think ....in any directions....it is all of it, still not our thoughts....

Answer 2

True love focuses on the happiness of another. It is thoroughly engaged in providing welfare for others, leaving behind any personal attachment. One has to be careful in this however, because we may start to believe this other person is the source of our delight, then love not understood becoming clinging. Then it is easy to confuse love with fixation, which will bring suffering, not joy.
We have to remember that our permanet source of joy is love, not another person. True love is the natural energy of a settled mind. It is inexhaustable and there is a disclipline to it. You cannot let negative emotions take over where there once was only delight, happiness and the joy of putting someone before yourself. Jealousy and anger can harden that love. True love is virtuous. We leave the 'me' behind and contemplate how far our love extends and how large our hearts can grow. We also must know wisdom so we do not become possessive. Wisdom knows we all need space. Most relationships don't work out because we need this space. When people first meet we're open and curious about each other. There is no sense of ownership, as the relationship evolves there is less and less space. Our concepts about each other begin to fill with expectation and attachment. Love needs space to grow, and love mixed with space is letting go. It is hard to let go of a concept of a person and how things would have been between you. Saying that, it is the loss of concept that causes heartache. When we let wisdom penetrate us, we gain tremendous space because we no longer are quite so possessed by our own projections. The people we love feel less oppressed by our fixation and genuine love has room to bloom. Space, love, putting another before yourself, with no question of anything in return is perhaps the truest defination of love.

Answer 3

If you open a dictionary you'll get a definition. But I'm sure that's not what you're looking for! Most people have this question sometime in their lives.
Love is a feeling and it can't easily be described with words.There are different forms of love. You love your parents, your brothers and sisters, your spouse, your friends, your children etc. but the feeling of love is different in each situation.
Love differs from one person to another. For me it might be not being able to lose that person, for you it might be communication, respect and sharing common interests. and for someone else it might be the need for that person in their lives. You will recognize love once you find it. I'm sure you recognize the love you have for your mother. How would you define that??!!

Answer 4

Love is unlike anything else. Love is the only definition for love.

Answer 5

Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection or profound oneness.[1] Depending on context, love can have a wide variety of intended meanings. Romantic love is seen as a deep, ineffable feeling of intense and tender attraction shared in passionate or intimate attraction and intimate interpersonal and sexual relationships.[2] Love can also be conceived of as Platonic love,[3] religious love,[4] familial love, and, more casually, great affection for anything considered strongly pleasurable, desirable, or preferred, including activities and foods.[5][2] This diverse range of meanings in the singular word love is often contrasted with the plurality of Greek words for love, reflecting the concept's depth, versatility, and complexity.

The definition of love is the subject of considerable debate, enduring speculation, and thoughtful introspection. Some tackle the difficulty of finding a universal definition for love by classifying it into types, such as passsionate love, romantic love, and committed love. However, some of these types of love can be generalized into the category of sexual attraction. In ordinary use, love usually refers to interpersonal love, an experience felt by a person for another person. Love often involves caring for or identifying with a person or thing, including oneself (cf. narcissism). Dictionaries tend to define love as deep affection or fondness.[1] In colloquial use, according to polled opinion, the most favoured definitions of love involve altruism, selflessness, friendship, union, family, and bonding or connecting with another.[6]

The different aspects of love can be roughly illustrated by comparing their corollaries and opposites. As a general expression of positive sentiment (a stronger form of like), love is commonly contrasted with hate (or neutral apathy); as a less sexual and more mutual and "pure" form of romantic attachment, love is commonly contrasted with lust; and as an interpersonal relationship with romantic overtones, love is commonly contrasted with friendship, although other connotations of love may be applied to close friendships as well.

Answer 6

I identify with your definition I see your information Someday we'll have to meet

Answer 7

Love is in the heart of the beholder.

Answer 8

The willingness to share your life. Abeit for a second, an hour or a lifetime.

Answer 9

to open your heart and let someone in who you are driven to be with. to trust, and like someone for who they are and not care what the rest of the world thinks. trust me, you know love when you feel it. i'm too young to have felt the real deal yet, but love is something you hope to have.

Answer 10

Being able to look at the person and seeing yourself growing old togather, not wanting to be without them and always thinking of them.