Does love truly esist ? or is it an immagination created in the mind?

Answer 1

Basically there are two types of people and two types of romantic love (although type two has a variation for most types of platonic relationships also. You see it often with mothers toward their children.)
Love type one: Eros love
- This is what they are talking about when you read about the love chemical. It has a huge effect on this stage of love. This is the love Jack and Rose had for each other in Titanic. You feel it in the beginning of a relationship. You are completely obsessed with the other person. Passion and fire is rampant. You rarely think of other things. You tell people you are in love. They can do no wrong in your eyes. It is exciting. You feel completely desired, wanted, and worthwhile. This love has an expiration date. It wears off. You start to see their flaws. It gets old. I've heard this can last up to about three years. Some people let the "love" go, saying it has become boring and they don't feel the same way. Often this is for the best, but sometimes they let go because of immaturity and look for the next best thing, the next high. This first stage of love has to happen to get to the next one. I'm sort of glad it expires, because you wouldn't be very productive or balanced if you were completely obsessed with a person forever.
Love type two: Agape love (agape is an old greek word for "love feast" and I've often heard it adopted in this culture to describe this second type of love)
- If you are lucky, you go into this second stage. This is commitment love. It is characterised by unconditional positive regard, patience, and self-sacrifice. There are ups and downs, but you stick with it bc you realize that real love isn't a feeling, it's actions, loyalty, and grace. This takes maturity and you generally have to have developed a real friendship with the person that will whether the ebb and flow of emotions. Sometimes the fire re-surfaces on special occasions, but it's not as all-consuming or long-lasting and brainless as eros was. This is what the 80 year olds celebrating their 60th anniversary have. This love protects the other's heart and shows love with actions even when they don't FEEL love for the other. Obviously, it seems like this is rare, and it is pretty rare. It requires unselfishness and for people to lay down their pride from time to time. That also takes intelligence. But it happens. They may not always be perfect to each other, but by and large, they go the distance because the majority of the time spent together is this kind of eternal love. You just have to realize that in real life, it's not the fantasy people represent it to be. It's work, it's family. It's not everlasting eros. There is more of a choice, and I think this means more. If it's easy to love and treat you right, you should expect it. If it's a constant effort that reaps sweet rewards, it means a lot.
Love is patient, Love is kind,
It does not envy, it does not boast,
It is not proud, It is not rude,
It is not self-seeking,
It is not easily angered,
It keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil,
but rejoices with the truth.
Love always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
Love bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things.
L o v e N e v e r F a i l s.
Two types of people: people capable of agape, and people who aren't.

Answer 2

Love is a pretty big concept. We "love" our children. We "love" a beautiful day. We "love" ice cream. We "love" a certain song.

But does everybody "love" those things? No. Children who receive no love, who are traumatised when very young may grow to actually fear love and react negatively when around "love." The famous tests where they deprived a baby monkey of it's mothers cuddling and "loving" becomes traumatized and shows signs of retardation and psycosis, but after being treated with a form of "love" it regains its mental balance. (In some cases the baby dies.)

So not only is "love" real, it is absolutely necessary for a sane and healthy life.

Now the idea of "romantic love" was introduced to the Western World around the 12th or 14th century - at least somewhat formally. Before there was sexual attraction or wealth as the accepted motivation for coupling. But a movement of higher mindedness came about and the idea of Romance and chivalry came into being. Women were seen as an ideal form of humanity and it was man's duty to not only protect woman from harm and deprivation, but to uphold the ideal as something humanity should strive for while "man"kind struggles and grovels in the dust and dirt of life in order to build this "new world." (Read Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkenss for an in depth look at this phenom)

Then we have the ancient Hindu theories of
"chakras" of which there are supposed to be 7. Now whether they are real "things" in side us or 7 eliments of our humanity is the same. The "heart" chakra is in the middle of the 7 with the 3 lower chakras relating to the body physical ego and power, sex and conneciton to the earth - and the 3 upper chakras relating to etherial - communicaiton, intuition and connectgion to the cosmos. The heart in the middle as sort of a "gate keeper" that allows us to move from the lower to higher and back again as needed. This reflects a practical use of "love." Certainly it is much easier to live in this world when you in situations where you receive and give various forms of "love."

To say "love" is just a chemical reaction is a narrow minded a nd likely pre-judged view for who can prove which came first, the chemical reaction or the etherial emotion? Why does gently rocking a baby cause it to produce the chemicals that creawte a sense of well being? And why does having a sense of well being create better physical and mental development? Is "love" the Wave to the body's "particle?

"Love" folks. You can't live with out at least a teeny bit of "Love."

Answer 3

This is the sting. All that you experience is createde in the mind. Immagination is also in the mind. Although to think that it is imagined is enticing, love is a evolutionary adaptation, and is real and exists, but not given as in a certainty of solidity, but in residue from sex hormones released in the mind, and if not sex hormones, then some form of ape like attachment. So, in reuse, love is true, and love is set in stone, and love is all around you and love is life and love is escape.

Answer 4

Does laughter exist?
Wonder?
Happiness, fear, horror?

How about MUSIC? Physically it's just magnetic markings on a disk, but when it's playing it's a sound, so does the sound actually exist?

Because you can't touch or see a thing doesn't make it any less real. This is part of the human experience, the ability to perceive and experience abstract concepts.

Love does exist. It's probably the only thing holding the tattered threads of humanity together. Well, that, and greed.

Answer 5

Yes love does exist. And it does come from our imagination. But falling in love as well as loving a person is a very complicated phenomenon.

Hegel once said this about love:

" In love man has found himself again in another. Since love is a unification of life, it presupposes division, a development of life, a developed many sidedness of life".

Answer 6

"Soul Mates and Twin Flames," Elizabeth Clare Prophet, and "Sexual Force or the Winged Dragon" and "Love and Sexuality," O. M. Aivanhov, are worthwhile, as they illustrate and explain that love is person-related, specific in various cases and ways. I.e., some may find "true love," for others, find it in their imagination. One type is not the case for all.

"Expecting Adam," Martha Beck, is another good example of love, as is "When Invisible Children Sing," Dr. Huang.

kind regards,

j.

Answer 7

Ask a mother who cradles the newborn sprung from her womb. I think this person would be able to provide a better answer than I.

Answer 8

Love exists. We want our day to be good only because we love our life and want to enjoy every bit of it. If u have a desire to do something good for yourself or for others then its because of Love.
I hope this answers your question.

Answer 9

Feeling exists and love is just a feeling, so love does truly exist.

Answer 10

NAH! when you heart skips a beat when you see HER

and you go WOW - is she pretty or WHAT!

she makes the room stand still

that is love

I enjoyed it for 25 years