What is love?

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

I know this will sound kind of stupid but I've been asking myself that same question and I came to the conclusion that love is that feeling that makes you the happiest person because you know that there is someone who is thinking about you all the time and wants to make sure that you are alright. And, because there is someone that wants to spend the rest of his/ her life with you. But most importantly you feel exactly the same.
But love is also scary because now that you found a reason for leaving: what if you lost it? What would you do if something happened to that person.
The happieness and the fear become one and that's when you realize you're in love.

Answer 3

You need to get in training. So, try these exercises. Run down an escalator that is going up. Or fill a leaky bucket. That will give you a taste of what's in store. Not that you need one. You can already tell how frustrating a particular situation is becoming. Here's how to avoid exasperation. Quit while you are ahead. And if you can't do that - quit while you are behind. Just quit. If something is supposed to happen, it will. It is one thing to give fate a gentle nudge and another to drag it in a direction it does not want to go.

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Answer 4

For many people it is a mixture of lust and greed. For some it is indescribable. It's totally opening yourself up to another person with no fear. It's safety. It's familiarity. It's the best feeling in the world.

I just hate how with most people it is the lust and greed thing. You don't need sex to have love. It's possible to go without it.

Answer 5

A LIE!!!!

j/k

love is hard to define b/c everyone feels it differently. and there are different types of love. love for a mom is very different than love for a g/f but they are very similar at the same time!!

personally i have never felt love for a significant other so i cannot define that.

but love for a family member is that yearning to bewith them. if their gone then you don't know what you would do. i know when my mom dies, if she dies before me, then that will be the greatest test to me as a human who feels love and compassion...

Answer 6

Charity.

Answer 7

impossible

Correction... often mission impossible