Where does love come from ?

Question

Is this a man made concept ? Or a form of a pure,
spiritual, MYSTERIOUS force, sent down from
a Higher Power ? Can one truly know where this
unexplained, feeling of strong affection, first took
place ? And it still exist in a modern day world, in
light of all the madness out there. Where does love
come from ? Best answer wins.

Answer 1

love comes from the heart

Answer 2

To answer your questions in order (in my opinion):
1: I dunno. 2: No. 3: It already is the higher power. 4: It first takes place every moment cos it doesn't live in time - what a funny thing to ask. 5: I think it does exist in the modern world, I think it's all around us but it's actions are usually hidden. 6: same as 1. And one thing more: some people here think it's a feeling, but it's more than that.

Answer 3

I don't think it's a man made concept...I guess. It's like a force that drives you into making you do anything to have the true form of it, so I guess it would be a mysterious, spritiual whachamacallit. Of course, love exists, because there's still true love out there, just disguised with lies.

Answer 4

It depends what type. The type of 'love' most people are used to (like we see on TV) comes from whatever object or collection of objects is living in your underwear. The type you might feel for a family member? Maybe it's just familiarity, a sort of over-developed version of that weird thing in your head that makes you not want to throw out your old trainers?
I don't know, really. It varies, I imagine, from person to person.
There's one type that I know of that gives me cause to believe that it does still exist and that soap operas are not realistic and we aren't all just people-hoarding... but I won't tell you what it is, because you'll think I'm a hippy. :P

Answer 5

Love and gratitude are 2 a number of issues. Gratitude ability being grateful. Love could have many diverse definitions yet often it truly is putting the desires of those you like above your guy or woman needs. you will be thankful for romance. and you may love having something to be thankful for. yet they're 2 completely separate issues.

Answer 6

I think it is a little cloud with a young cherub on it, carrying a bow and arrow and field glasses. Yes it still exists in the modern world. The cherub has now upgraded to using a telescopic sight on his Ak47 of love.

Answer 7

Where does love come from?
I think it's simply an istinct, coming from the need of the other for the best surviving. Education has invented all the romantic stories usually connected to this word.
You love what you like, and you like what you think can improve your life, because of its kindness, beauty, and so on... Of course, you're not aware of all these things when you fall in love with one person. You think that you're irresistibly attracted by that wonderful being, but the truth is that your senses are attracted (and it can really happen all of a sudden in an unexpected way), but love develops later, when your subconscious realizes that you can't live without that person because you need her/him.
Ciao ciao.
PS Sorry for my English, but I'm Italian!

Answer 8

Buddhist philosophy points to the idea of its being intrinsic to our true nature.

This being defiled adventitiously by the mind's 'reactions' to things.

An analogy being that of gold & gold ore.

The gold is already fairly pure, the impurities need only be removed (fairly easily) by the goldsmith (the individual).

The process of smelting, refinement, is similar to the spiritual / positively developmental life.

The realisation of the (very) best of one's potential. :-)

Answer 9

Imagine yourself away from home for a certain period of time. Your home, where you have your wife, your children, your family, a space of your own along with all the things that you like and value most in life. Now, while at home you feel comfortable and perfectly at ease with yourself, living in perfect sweet harmony with the people of your life. Then you dream, you dream of good days and more happy times to follow. And then you work, hope and pray to ensure that your dreams actually come true Life is bliss; it is full of love and happiness. This love is realised best in form of all you have, and you feel it through the joy of living.

Then imagine one day you go abroad somewhere for couple of months. There you realise that you cannot come back home at your free will and you are not sure either how long it is going to take for you to overcome difficulties in the way of you returning. You miss all that your home means for you. Your love is still there but the object of your love is far from you. So, your live is realised in another form, in form of longing to return back home.

Life is a displacement from its essential origins of excellence that we have left behind somewhere in some other world that we recollect. This depth is so much that thoughts cannot reach it, and you need have that essential love realised in various form in this world. We can love someone, but the proper way to love someone is to treat someone nice, and to think of their wellbeing for all the worlds in existence. That love then is heavenly, leading to our destination of true love in reality.

Answer 10

Super question!

I like the answer above that said God is Love.
I believe that too, but i also believe that the Universe is God...
and that means... that the Universe is Love?

But how can that be?

Love must be like a perception of harmony... When our subjective human perspectives are saturated with harmony (for fellow humans, for animals, for earth, for a noble cause) we feel a strong sense of well-being, we feel good in our bodies and in our spirits.... we feel Love!

Love must be the word we attribute to our perception of the infinite harmony of the Universe ( or God or whatever you wanna call it)!

So "Love" is our happy perception of infinite harmony.
It only exists when WE exist because it is OUR perception.
The Universe is not ONTOLOGICALLY equivalent to Love.
But its infinite harmony is the catalyst for our happy perception which we call Love. Love comes from within by appreciating what is with out.

Lust is another issue, and is many times mistaken for Love.
Lust, i believe has to do with our biological drive to reproduce.

And yes, i think its HIGHLY likely that most (maybe ALL) humans have a hard-wired desire to reproduce. After all, we are born from nothing but generation after generation of reproducers, and that trait HAS got to be transmitted through
our genetics...

And just FYI... i feel the desire to reproduce is a real driving force in humans even though i myself am TOTALLY gay... I mean, i KNOW it is a driving force for many gay people too

Answer 11

i believe it's neither man-made nor god sent...it's just given a name by people...i think love is really an internal feeling which only u can feel urself..no1 can make u feel so until u wish to..
i believe it's totally an internal feeling..
i have a nice point on ur quesn"where did it come frm"??
adam n eve started to love
romeo n juliet introduced it
devdas n paro suffered for it
laila n majnu died for it

so better beware of it

but i don believe so....cos real love can't be neglected..
u just can't take it out of u cos u feel it