definition of love

[lake]

I posted my definition of love in a thread but never really got any feedback.... So would like to know your thoughts?

An ego tensile manifestation of the magnified singular physical want regarding the self which incorporates both shared and hidden emotions along with a self singular glaring determination which invokes a dissemination of the self for another, for no other sane reason except fear.
Therefore the need for love from another is the clarifying of fear to the self.

I wrote the above straight off....after asking what is love?
I would like to know if you think its wrong or right?
To be fair.......my judgement of you is not just on your valuation of this definition but also upon your living perception of a moral position?

[RunningDeer]

Post deleted. Confused about the OP.

[magnum]

http://in5d.com/love-reality-and-the...of-transition/

"Looking at it more closely we can see that “Love” is one of the most abused and misunderstood words. We mistake things like gratification, sentimentality, obligation, duty, passion, desire, and other superficial emotions, ideas and conditioned concepts as “Love” in order fill something that is lacking within us. These distortions are also used (unconsciously) as buffers to avoid facing reality as it is by looking at the world with rose-colored glasses on, instead of seeing oneself and the world more objectively beyond appearances."

[OMG]

"Love" is the definition of "Love"

You either know & experience it or you don't.

Love ya!

[Magnus]

I posted my definition of love in a thread but never really got any feedback.... So would like to know your thoughts?

An ego tensile manifestation of the magnified singular physical want regarding the self which incorporates both shared and hidden emotions along with a self singular glaring determination which invokes a dissemination of the self for another, for no other sane reason except fear.
Therefore the need for love from another is the clarifying of fear to the self.

I wrote the above straight off....after asking what is love?
I would like to know if you think its wrong or right?
To be fair.......my judgement of you is not just on your valuation of this definition but also upon your living perception of a moral position?

I think there may be more to this story, but in my experience, true love are synonymous with unconditional affection and mutual respect, existing beyond the EGO, and is often a precursor for spiritual and etheral bonding.

Can you explain your thought processes?

[lunaflare]

Hey Lake
This is my opinion (don't take it personally)

The sentence is way too long and confusing. Actually it does not make much sense.
So perhaps it is not a sentence after all.
On the other-hand (or side of the coin) OMG's post that,
Love is the definition of Love..does...(make sense)

Well those are my thoughts since you asked.
Thanks!

[Lifebringer]

I think of it as "whole-self" homesickness throughout the life, if you never marry or make friends to fill that void. If you've never gotten close to have a bff. Do you think that is why those expanded feeling have turned to greed that gives them a resemblance of happiness to have all, to own all, to be all? I used to feel lonely or alone when very young in a large family. I was 3rd.(there's a book on that called I AM Third) Anyway after getting into sports, I found a sports family that accepted me as I was, and respected my skills in volleyball, baseball, billiards, basketball and one catch the bunch. When those feelings of comfort support, respect, and friendship are missing, I feel it's the opposite of love that comes out and sometimes they have crimes that are very hidden and deep.
Love is a release of the good feeling you feel from the heart, when all feels well. Love is unconditional, ageless, endless, colorless, burst of good ummmm...

[joeecho]

Love is the foundation of all whether consciously recognized or not.

[Nat_Lee]

Love is simple.
Love is light.
Love is all that exist and make it stick together.
:D

[joeecho]

Love does not exist but it's many manifestations do.

[A Voice from the Mountains]

If you want to get analytical about love, I'd define it as the force in nature that brings people and things together, inspires cooperation, is constructive and builds things.

On the other hand I would say that which is not love tends to separate things into smaller and smaller pieces (like trying to analyze love itself, coincidentally), separates people from one another, inspires conflict, and destroys things.

[Atlas]

Love is music:

Shola Ama - I Still Believe
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Shola Ama - You Might Need Somebody
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[joeecho]

If you want to get analytical about love, I'd define it as the force in nature that brings people and things together, inspires cooperation, is constructive and builds things.

On the other hand I would say that which is not love tends to separate things into smaller and smaller pieces (like trying to analyze love itself, coincidentally), separates people from one another, inspires conflict, and destroys things.

It is always a fail attempt to define love analytically but you can define its manifestations analytically. I think that is why many times when a sage is asked to define love it is often said...

Love is

....which is contra to an analytical statement. A person either gets it or they don't and they usually don't get it if they try to analyze it.

[WhiteLove]

In my understanding there are various kinds of love, but they are all connected to the supreme love. The supreme love is that which Jesus showed by dying on the cross: I love you so unconditionally that not even my own life is a condition on that love for you. Love cannot get more unconditional than that. He said I am the way, the truth and the life, meaning that being in this unconditional love is the greatest there is that leads to truth, peace and everlasting joy. Love is peace, forgiveness, open arms, desire, acceptance, truth, truthful, "authentic liking without conditions attached". The brain might logically think that the self is loving someone, but it's the heart that truly knows. Therefore its impact can sometimes turn out confusing - the brain is certain the self loves the person, the heart knows the self does not love the person. In other words, love is inside in the heart and reflects a kind of being about someone that is an expression of love.

If you see a stranger that you have not met before but you feel a strong love to that person and authentically do not put any conditions in the way of showing that love but simply just run up to that person and give him/her a hug out of that true love that you feel for this person, it will feel as if the heavens open up and you are in the midst of an angelic battle between light and dark forces. It's a very powerful rush of love that is going to flow through your body - a dance by the inner child never so joyful ever before!

[lake]

Thanks for the replies.
I am not stating that your feelings are wrong, just that your use of the word 'love' is incorrect to express that emotional vibration.
Love is of the ego self.
Empathy is for another.

This is the thread I originally posted my definition. Maybe too long....lol.
http:// projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?70969-Love-Empathy-Morals-and-Technology (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?70969-Love-Empathy-Morals-and-Technology)

Why do many women and men stay in abusive relationships and claim that 'love' is their reasoning?
Let's rewrite the definition:
a display by an individual due to an emotionally strained self esteem which is trying to show to itself and the physical world that it is not alone.
This display of possession of or by another, has an outwards visual to the object of love but also holds within an individual a fear of loss or lack.
This loss/lack feeling contained within pushes a purposeful decision to limit and spread the individuals nature ( becoming what you perceive another or group wants) rather than be labeled as alone.
Therefore your need to be accepted within a relationship/group/society allows you to understand the separation you feel

This definition is only from the defined words from the original posted.

You 'love' so that you are not alone in this physical.
You gain via 'love' in this physical.

To empathise you only give of that you are and will still be alone!

[A Voice from the Mountains]

When people have transcendental experiences of ego-loss (whether through meditation or psychedelic drugs or whatever) they often say that they experience even an even greater depth of love than they do when living out of their ego. So I'm not sure that this is really the case that love is an ego-based phenomenon.

Also I look to nature and what holds it in balance, and allows trees and animals and insects and fungi and all this to live together in harmony, and I think that must be a form of love too.

[Camilo]

Love, love, love each other and all things, even those things that your personality does not like, love them nonetheless. Know that love is not a feeling. It is not an emotional state, and it is not an amotional response. It is a perception within which you see the divine spark in everything.