what is love?

[Ensoñador]

Hello

Love is when we recognize in us the truth. Love is conciousness. Love is not dependency, or romantic feelings where we put our happyness in others hands. Love is freedom[] and has nothing to do with being afraid or preocupied about someone. Love is uncondicional, and the capacity to see beauty and perfection, the capacity of feeling an "see" God great plan in everything good and bad that happens.

[bomohwkl]

Love, how can it be love, if it is not express towards someone. If the someone doesn't express love back to you, how do you feel? How much difference would you feel if someone express love back to you?
Isn't the feeling of bliss is higher in the later case? Isn't that for higher bliss of feeling it requires mutual exchange of love between at least two persons?
When you really love someone u set the person free.You don't tight him down and posssess him. Love is NOT freedom. Freedom is the consequence of love.
How can one say love is unconditional when one has to has the capacity to see the beauty and prefection, the capacity of seeing 'god' plan...Isn't it look like a pre-requite required for someone even to come close to know the meaning of love? See, love can only exist in only certain conditions.How many people is able to see the beauty and prefection within the complexity? Tremendous knowledge and understanding is required not only to see but APPRECIATE the complexity yet beauty and prefection of life and the universe? The greater the appreciation, the higher the feeling of bliss is possible. How can we measure appreciation? But one thing is for sure, an idiot could hardly appreciate any beauty as he doesn't know what actually it is in front of the eyes.

My humble opinion

[MosesB]

Love is more than words and its appauling that someone would bring that up because it leads me to believe that they themself is lacking love in thier life.This is disappointing...[]...[!]...[V]

[Ensoñador]

Hello:

Bomohwkl:

1)You dont need others love to feel yours, you need others to give that love. Romantic lives leads to dependency, hapiness is in our hands, not in our loved ones. We cant experience others love but with our own hearts, so what we experience is not the others but ourselfs.

1)Love is freedom, you cant experience it if you dont feel free and viceversa, need love to feel free.

3)We are all capable of loving, we all can recognise Gods Plan in everything, Its a simple thing, a knowledge we all have. Everytime we love a person we love Gods plan.

4)Love has no requirements but your own permission to experience it

5)Love is working everywhere all the time.

[Nay]

Well, I started to read the other post..then stopped..why? I have no idea..
LOVE..wow..ok...to me, it is when I am sitting in the chair watching the kids play in the pool laughing with each other and enjoying life.
When they say something sooo funny it makes me cry.  
When I am crying and they come up and say.."it's ok, Mom"
Being upset and my husband holds me until it has subsided.  
Having a complete stranger saying to me at the Grocery store.."oh, you only have three items..please go first"
Having dreams about my deceased loved ones.
Watching the cats sneek up on each other and attack!
Watching my toddler sneek up on the cats and attack!

It is sooo many things..things that make you feel good. Things that make you feel like..well..that life is precious..
Oh...and don't forget laughter...yessss love is laughter! []

Nay. []

[Man Of Jade]

Ah... Love....
Love is when you care so much for someone you would take a bullet for them... When hearing the melodic tones of their voice you are set for the day... It is infinite caring, unlimited passion... Its the most incredible feeling in the world.......

....Man I wish I could express that feeling again [V]

[Tayesin]

All of the above, and the love we feel towards all other beings on the planet. Which is hard to describe too.

And then there is the 'Big Love' feeling of being in direct communication with the divine source. It's sort of like what people talk about when they say unconditional love, only thousands of times stronger to experience.

Love always.

[beavis]

I'm very confused, but my guess is... love is that which attracts connections to other parts of the universe

[TorosDead]

WOW THAT'S A PRETTY DEEP QUESTION.. WHO REALLY KNOWS.  IF YOU BELIEVE IN HIM, CHRIST SAYS THAT LOVE IS CHARITY.  THROUGH CHARITY YOU WILL FEEL LOVE!

[bomohwkl]

There is no sense of hatred in love, there is no sense of rejection in love, there is no sense of frustration in love, there is no sense of anger in love, there is no sadness in love.

Love can only be given by free-will of a person.
Love is not shown by the enforcement of laws but rather the agreement of people of observing such rules/wisdom by their free-will.

[jilola]

Regardig taking a bullet for someone aka dying for someone: You have realized that dying for someone is easy, living for same can the the hardest thing.
I've met two soulmates, been engaged to both and lost both due to the fact that the relationship would've driven both of us to extremely dumb things and one soul twin whom I've never physically met but who's gong to marry someone else.
Love has nothing at all to do with physical matters and everything to do with seeing the other person as a soul you've met before and known forever, essentially.

Love knows no boundaries becuase it's not of the physical world.
Anythin less is, while valuable and sacred, infatuation.

Your mileage WILL vary.

2cents & L&L
jouni

[Tayesin]

Hi people.

Yes Paul, it is from the source. I thought that was understood in my post. It does say, that it is sort of like what people talk about when they say unconditional love. Perhaps I should have said that it is what people mean when they say unconditional love? I was trying not to be dogmatic in my wording.

My choice of words 'Big Love' was referring to what we feel from the source when we are in direct communication with it. And that is in line with what you said........"IMHO there are numerous levels of Unconditional Love. The closer we get to God the divine Source the purer our Unconditional Love becomes". That is also my experience of it. []

Love always.

[imora]

anyone?