describe LOVE?

Question

Philosophic answers please!

Answer 1

Love is kindness, understanding, trust and respect.
It's more then a feeling.
it really has no words to describe it although you try.
Love is unselfish and meaningful.
it's like looking into the most beautiful picture and having that bubbling over feeling.
Love just is and shouldn't be reduced to mere words, it's a feeling of security and truth.
It's insanity and sanity all at once.

Answer 2

Love is nothing more than a transitory state or feeling of affection for another. Unfortunately, our culture teaches that behaviour is love and some of the justification defies logic.

Feeling "unloved" is one of the greater mysteries of our species. If we associate love with behaviour, one will always feel unloved. One will always be desperate and seeking love (a behaviour) that cannot be found with anyone.

Of course, this is all part of the social conditioning. It begins with parents who teach children incorrectly that love is a behaviour rather than an emotion or feeling of affection. The child suffers their lifetime through being taught this lesson. Some so upset that they commit suicide for their feeling unloved. We are far from an intelligent species.

Then we further compound the entire experience by having something called "unconditional love". My love for anyone is conditional. Again, this is just social conditioning to ensure that as the parent ages that a child will be their to provide for them.

"if you loved me, you would do X." The early social conditioning is a masterful way to manipulate others into action.

Answer 3

Love is a choice, not a feeling. It is choosing to care for and care about someone or something besides yourself. Pleasant feelings may accompany the choice, but not necessarily. I did not understand this when my first baby was born. I expected to have a great rushing surge of feeling and transcendant love when I first saw my newborn son. I didn't have that. this was a cute little baby, just as cute as any other little newborn. I felt tremendously guilty because I didn't feel the way I thought I would. Then after caring for my baby and breastfeeding him and the bonding, I felt the nice sweet feelings; but the main part of the love was the choice I made to have him and to take care of this little helpless person day and night.

We live in a throw away society. We are inclined to make relationships out of "feelings" that involve lust and attraction and call them love. And then when that lust and attraction begins to cool we are very happy to disolve that relationship and move on. We are too selfish to dedicate ourselves to the maintenance of that relationship. We do not divorce our children. We always love them no matter what they do or what happens between us. Why are we not willing to choose to love our significant other no matter what and make the relationship just as binding as that of the parent child relationship? I dont know. We get the kids we are handed through God or natural selection. We choose our significant other. Doesn't make sense--does it?

Answer 4

Intense infatuation, dedication and hope. These are the only parts of it that can be co-related by all! Anything else is a purely personal individual experience... such as trying to describe the experience of seeing a color without point it out or using its name!
All attempts beyond them are just foolish exercise or poetry!

Answer 5

Love is long-suffering and kind. Love is not jealous, it does not brag, does not get puffed up,  does not behave indecently, does not look for its own interests, does not become provoked. It does not keep account of the injury.  It does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth.  It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.

Answer 6

Like Owen Wilson said in Wedding Crashers: "True love is your soul's recognition of its counterpoint in another." I think that love is something that can be taken for granted nowadays but nonetheless a feeling that everyone wants to have.

Answer 7

It is that inner joy we experience due to freedom from conditionalities of external factors, and logical reasoning of our own mind as internal factors.
That is why true love is said to be 'unconditional'. Love keeps us a 'loving being' no matter whatever the situation ! It would seem to defy logic !

Answer 8

love is a total giving emotion that means you give to the one you love the most without wanting for yourself in return

Answer 9

for me, "LOVE" is the only word that couldn't be described or have a definition.................

sadly, you won't find a description to this great beautiful word in my own dictionary of life................for "LOVE" is an undescriable collection of emotions towards others, mainly the especial ones.

Answer 10

When you're with someone and no words are exchanged yet you walk away feeling that it was the best conversation you've ever had.