“Love and knowledge are two important things in the world – when we share them their values don’t decrease, they always increase.”
Can you define Love?
No, if you live it. Yes, in all other cases.
“The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. The unnamable is the eternally real,” said Lao Tzu.
If you focus on just the name, you lose the content.
Love is how you behave towards others. Love has a lot of meanings. It can mean an intense feeling of affection, an emotion or emotional state.
Love is the key to your happiness and a blessing to all others. If you love you make the world a more kind and gentle place and other people feel more safe around you.
Translate the Word “Love” Into Action
Love is the basis of harmonic relationships and gracious giving and receiving. Remind yourselves of love and translate the word “love” into action. When Ying and Yang (giving and receiving) are in balance, you have time to help others and to receive help, to understand and to be understood, to help others and to receive help listen and to tell, to be there for people in need and to ask people for something, to give love and to receive love.
“He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
Interpersonal Love
ove usually refers to interpersonal love, in ordinary use.
Interpersonal love is love between human beings, and is more pleasant than the conception of very much liking for another. Although feelings are usually reciprocal (hopfully), there can also be unrequited love. Human love is usually found in an interpersonal relationship, such as between family members, friends, and couples. However, people often express love for other people outside of these relationships through merciful outreach and volunteering.
Some elements that are often present in interpersonal love:
Affection: appreciation of other
Attachment: satisfying basic human emotional needs
Reciprocation: if love is mutual
Commitment: a desire to maintain love
Emotional intimacy: sharing emotions and feelings
Kinship: family relationship
Passion: hot sexual desire
Physical intimacy: sharing of personal space
Self-interest: desiring rewards
Service: desire to help
Impersonal love
A person can be said to love a home, country, a principle, goal, job, sports team or hobby if they value it greatly and are deeply committed to it. People can also ‘love’ material objects (cars, houses, bikes), animals, or activities if they invest themselves in bonding their identity with that item.
Religious love
“Let everyone understand that the real love of God does not consist in tear-shedding, nor in that sweetness and tenderness for which we often long, just because they console us, but in serving God by serving those around us, in justice, fortitude of soul, and humility.” – Teresa of Avila
Most religions use love to express the devotion the follower has to their deity who may be a living guru or religious teacher.
This love can be expressed by putting the love of God above personal needs, prayer, service, good deeds, and personal sacrifice, all done selflessly. Reciprocally, the followers may believe that the deity loves the followers and all of creation. Some traditions encourage the development of passionate love in the believer for the deity. Here we can see the most horible examples. People commit suicide and ans kill others in thr name of love to their God.
The Power of Passion
Successful people win because they love what they do. All of them have a very strong desire to succeed. They have passion for their field, their business and can work day and night to achieve their goals.
Passion is the single fastest way to spur yourself to massive success. It is something you love. Something you’re excited about. Something you get up early to work on or to stay up late.
I really hope that you have someone/something to love!