What is Love?

Question

How would one define love? Are there different levels of love?

Answer 1

Love cannot be defined. In my opinion, love is not being able to stop thinking about them. It is unconditional, beautiful, and pure. It is not selfish. It is knowing that someone completes you. It is the butterflies you feel each time you see them. It's how time stops when you kiss them. It's how you don't even notice the world around you when you're walking hand in hand. Love is knowing you can completely trust and be loyal to another. Of course there are different levels of love. Love for a pet, mother, friend, cell phone are all very different!! But being IN LOVE then that is only one level. If you doubt it, it's not love. But when you are in love...then you def know it!! Love is pure bliss!!!!

Answer 2

Love can be defined as two things. Love can be a feeling you feel for another person and Love can also be an act of kindness. When you show someone love you are being nice to them. Love can also be a feeling you have for someone or something. And Of course there are different levels of love. Like i love my dog but of course i love my family and God more. So yes there are MANY MANY MANY different levels of love. There are even different levels of the other kind of love. That all depends on your kindness to others. The more kind you are the higher level of love you are showing.

~Chelsea

Answer 3

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 4

Definitely. There are different types of loving within a woman.

Men may not understand this, sometimes, and they can be jealous on their own new born babies, e.g. Though a woman can both love as a mother, and as a wife; she can worship her husband the same time!

A woman can love a man, as she could feel for her own child, when her husband may be in great physical need (drunken, . . . whatever). Those moments there is not passion or about anything alike, but it's still love, a different form. There are so many way to love someone . . .

There is also passion, rough lust (?) - shall we name it love? It depends on partners. If they are just one for the other, without infidelities, it's still love. Else it should be kind of cannibalisation ?!?

There is also love through the time passing. Like a noble wine. There is no passion through flesh attractiveness, maybe, who knows (?), but you see the person standing in front of you exactly like in the ever first day when you have to become in loved . . . and kiss his lips, and kiss his eyes, . . . cherishing him for the wonderful man he used to be till that very moment in front of you. You also have to feel for yourself such a plenitude because that man dedicated to you his heart, his body, his time, most of his thoughts. There should be such a great reciprocal gratitude and still striving for caress . . .

There is still a feeling I cannot describe.
It's so new for me.
Shall it be the true pure love? What is this? Something which makes you feel easy like a feather, but strong and mighty as Achilles?

Answer 5

I have been posing this one. Some people say it is a pathological illness or hypnotism based on sex in the brain appeal.

I don't think sex comes into it. I think connection is important. But there may be greater levels than this? Different levels. I find I get blocked emotionally cause I must love another. All good romantic stories.

Answer 6

There are at least as many levels of love as there are shades and hues from delicate pink to ruby red. Moreover, these are arrayed along varying axes of import: e.g., maternal love, paternal love, romantic love, love of God, love of good friends, etc.

Most people are quite interested in romantic love, so here are two good authors: Elizabeth Clare Prophet, "Soul Mates and Twin Flames," and O. M. Aivanhov, "Sexual Force or the Winged Dragon." Also, Martha Beck, Ph.D., gives a warm, funny, and profound account of her earning her Ph.D. at Harvard while carrying her unborn child to term.

cordially,

j.

p.s. If you're Christian, "Love God completely" is like a great sphere, in which "love colleague as Self" is nestled, with Self-realization occurring per "I-Thou" with God.

Answer 7

Love is being afraid to do something dangerous or painful or frightening, but doing it without hesitation for the safety of another person.
Also, it's seeing the person with the flu and barfy and not having had a shower in three days, and still kissing them.

Answer 8

love is hared 2 explain.there are no level 4 love.it is from the heart. GOD is love he/she doesn't love u or anyone less.
if u sin just ask 4 forgiveness and u will B 4 given.love is undescriable.love can be share with 2 people or animal or anything

Answer 9

Love is when you can walk around naked and know that the person you are with doesnt look at you like you may pick apart yourself.

Love is the warm, cozy feeling when you snuggle in bed with your best friend at the end of the day and feel content and safe.

Answer 10

"Love is What You Really Are. Love is what God is. The words love and God are interchangeable. Likewise, God and you, and God and me, are interchangable. Therefore, the words love and you, and love and me, are synonums as well, describing exactly the same thing. And what do these words-God, love, you, me- describe? Life. This is all our way of describing what life is, love is. Life-love-God-you-me-it's all the same thing.
Love is all there is. This means that everything is a form of love. Now that may be difficult to accept, difficult to comprehend, but God says it is true.
Mysteries such as these are not easily grasped, particularly if we look only at the shallow end of things. We have to dive into that pool of wisdom and plunge to the very depths in order to find the meaning here. When we discover the truth of these statements, then we understand at last what love is. And what God is. And what we are.
When we say that the world is as it is just because we don't have enough love for others and the things around us, what I think is that the world is the way it is because we don't have enough of an awareness of our oneness with God and the life which is around us. What I've been trying to say here and is that God and we are one. Life and we are one. You and I are one. Everyone- you, me, God, life- is all the same stuff. When we get clear on that, all of the problems we have created in our lives will go away. Every single life problem of which I am aware is based in the thought that there is a thing called "separation". As soon as the thought of separation disappears, all of the problems of life disappear as well. They automatically resolve themselves. They go away. And we dont' create them anew, because we would never do that to ourselves.
We'd never allow thousands of people to starve to death every day because we'd never do that to ourselves. We'd never allow millions to be killed in wars because we'd never do that to ourselves. We would not allow masses of people to be ravaged by poverty and disease because we woudl never do that to ourselves. And, on a smaller scale, we'd never allow our personal behaviors to be unkind or damaging to others, because we would know and understand that there are no "others", and we would never do that to ourselves. As soon as we realize we are all one, we stop immediately our destructive behaviros, because we realize that those behaviors are self-destructive. (As long as we think of them as merely 'other' destructive, we don't seem to care.) So, love is realizing we are one. Love is understanding that. Living that.
Love is the energy which expands, opens up, sends out, stays, reveals, shares, heals. Love allows us to stand naked. Love gives all that we have away. Love holds dear. Love lets go. Love soothes. Love amends. Love never says no.
In other words, Love says "my will for you is your will for you".
There is yet one more way you can know the deeds of love. They are the deeds that are undertaken without expectation and without condition. True love is unconditional. There is no such thing as "I love you if". We have been living with an idea of an "I love you if" kind of God for many centuries now. From the start, that kind of idea about God has been inaccurate.
And I guess if I had to settle on one single characteristic of love, some defining wuality that was always there, it would be that love always unites, and creates or honors oneness. If therefore, a decision or choice is made by individuals or governments which tends to divide, which creates or honors separation, it is not a decision or choise based in love. Anything that creates a "them" and "us" mentality is not love."