What is Love?

[truthseeker]

'What is love?' is an interesting question indeed. While we want to believe that love is in the heart of the beholder, Love is a universal thing. We all want love. Everything we do and everything we seek is to reach higher levels of love. I have been breaking every cycle in search of the purest love. And while love is definately in your gut, as FaithfulServant said earlier on, I also agree with PostMaster and Sacred Star as well. The gut feeling is anxiety and fear and adoration and desire - all the things that are associated with love but the purest love just IS.

Just like fruit juice. It's water, and sugar, and some vitamins, and other stuff in it too. There is no pure fruit juice.

The purest love is simply Love. It has no explanations. It can't be picked apart in pieces in any kind of way. It is not desire. The closest I can describe it to is PEACE. And in a state of peace we do not feel euphoria - we feel nothing.

It can only really be displayed in deed. Humankind is so far away from getting to God. We study Bibles and jump on the Jesus wagon and the whole bit, but we miss the true essence of why Jesus died on the cross - LOVE. We get so wrapped up in dogma that we forget that we are here to develope a love relationship with God.

[Quahom1]

Originally Posted by truthseeker

'What is love?' is an interesting question indeed. While we want to believe that love is in the heart of the beholder, Love is a universal thing. We all want love. Everything we do and everything we seek is to reach higher levels of love. I have been breaking every cycle in search of the purest love. And while love is definately in your gut, as FaithfulServant said earlier on, I also agree with PostMaster and Sacred Star as well. The gut feeling is anxiety and fear and adoration and desire - all the things that are associated with love but the purest love just IS.

Just like fruit juice. It's water, and sugar, and some vitamins, and other stuff in it too. There is no pure fruit juice.

The purest love is simply Love. It has no explanations. It can't be picked apart in pieces in any kind of way. It is not desire. The closest I can describe it to is PEACE. And in a state of peace we do not feel euphoria - we feel nothing.

It can only really be displayed in deed. Humankind is so far away from getting to God. We study Bibles and jump on the Jesus wagon and the whole bit, but we miss the true essence of why Jesus died on the cross - LOVE. We get so wrapped up in dogma that we forget that we are here to develope a love relationship with God.

God loves, yet there have been times when He was provoked to wrath...did He stop loving? And at a couple points, he was ready to rid Himself of troublesome man, did He stop loving?

He even called His "chosen" people like a wayward woman, yet He still "desired" her, and would put all past discresions aside...did He stop loving?

Jesus, made a decision, regardless of how He felt, that was in the best interest of that which He cared for most.

I think the point here is that Love, is not a feeling, or lack of feeling, at all.

It is a decision to do what is best for another, regardless of personal emotion.

Let me put it another way. The Bible states that greater love hath no man, than he who lays his life down for his friends. In situations where a man may choose to lay his life down for others, what do you thing the predominant emotion is at the time? FEAR, for self, followed by outright rejection of the natural inclination for self preservation. For a second, we use rage to overide our desire to live. These are not feelings of LOVE, so therefore LOVE must be something else. I submit that LOVE is choice, chosing to do what is best regardless and in spite of how we may feel.

Sacred Star might call it compassion, however, there have been times when compassion is the last thing on a person's mind, in fact contempt might be a better descriptor of the state of feeling. But the individual "chooses" to do what is best for another, anyway.

Do my thoughts make sense?

v/r

Q

[Sacredstar]

If it hurts it is not divine love and many people hurt due to negative emotions, from my perspective emotion can be calm or stormy but feeling is very different. Feeling is sentient and comes from the heart of the soul.

Unconditional love is a state of being, it is a high level of consciousness. Compassion is active, but yet compassionate action is compelled by love and GOD's will-to-good.

Sometimes we do not like the taste of the medicine but yet our health improves after we take it. When our mother or father give us the spoon do we feel hurt? No we accept and trust all is for our highest good. So love can come in many different forms and humanity is still discovering what real love is and what it really means to give love beyond measure.

being love

Kim xx