You know when your growing up, and your taught about Love. You Love your parents, they Love you. When your young, your taught and told to Love your family. You have your first relationship in middle school or whatever, "I Love you"s are tossed around, and you think you know what Love is. Then, one day, you realize what Love REALLY is. And your completely blown the fuck away. It changes you more than acid or anything else every could. Love is fractal, like everything else, and the Love will stem off if you allow it. At this point you are reaching enlightenment, but who cares about that word, Love is all that matters. Love is the answer.
true true! :cheers2: I think we must first love ourselves before we can fully love others. It's refreshing to hear this talk of love.
and what if you're not taught what love is and you never had that experience in middle school and you've never experienced what love really is? then what?
love in the sense we are discussing i dont think can be defined, and in someway or another most people have experienced love in various ways. i think its about recognizing that its love, and even if people don't recognize it, the love is generally still affecting them and those around them positively
before i knew what love is i was feeling love and probably unaware of it for what it was. i definitely remember clinging to my mom when i was a lil kid, lol. wanting to be around her all the time and wrapping myself around her leg when she'd walk around the house. All sorts of shit. lol I believe love is natural in human experience and it's something we're born with and are apart of. If you don't love, something negative and fearful must have made you deter away from it (as they say fear is the opposite of love). It's definitely a deep feeling of connection in which we simply choose to label, with the word "love". Yeah, "I love you's" are often tossed around carelessly - It's not so much the word that matters - but the honest feelings you are trying to convey.
i have always been a big fan of independancy and non-attachment, and loving myself and god and thus having unconditional love for all beings. it's great loving everyone. but true love in the sense of an intimate relationship is just something different entirely. it's an albatross. it overwrites all and everything else. something that i have never quite really understood, since it does form attachments, and it is just so different from unconditional love for all beings. the only justification i can make is that i am falling into perversions of real love, but that just doesn't make sense considering how powerful it is.
I don't think true love in an intimate relationship is that different from unconditional love for all things. While it definitely makes it harder not to form attachment, true love in a relationship has to be unconditional as well. True love is the essence of God
I don't think you would be alive today if you never experienced love at some point in you life. :cheers2:
