Adam D asked:
What does love mean to you?
What does love mean to you?
What does being in love or having that feeling of being loved inside you mean to you?
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Sex with the lights on, and a cuddle afterwards..
A distant memory.
Love means the world to me.
The most powerful drug that can turn the most wise people into stupid emotional fools.
it’s like God the only God has just spoken
im not religious…
i forgotten
Love for me is this feeling in me that’s felt when it’s meant to be. It’s a happiness that you can’t explain without experiencing. Like a happy, warm feeling that makes you feel so satisfied. You know it when it comes. Love =
Love= Love
theirs nothing like it, nothing comparable, neither in the type hurt it can cause or the happiness. But i would seperate it in to two types, that love where you spend your time (sometimes life) with one person, and they with you.
And loving people, family, having compassion and charity.
It means having someone have the power over me to affect my moods which ranges from being totally happy when we’re spending time together to downright depressing when he doesn’t call anymore.
Love= 100% Love+ 0 % Hate
relationship
Love is Divine. When we misuse it we land in peril
love is love
love=hate
becuase theres not much difference between the 2, both makes you cat crazy.
Imagine an invisible, undetectable force that’s powerful
enough to override your sense of reason yet draws you
to someone with an almost animal passion. These aren’t
Cupid’s mythological arrows, but real shots of human
pheromones.
Welcome to The Scent of Eros:
Mysteries of Odor in Human Sexuality -
‘Scientists in Philadelphia have established for the first
time that the human body produces pheromones, special
aromatic chemical compounds discharged by one individual
that affect the sexual physiology of another’….
Do pheromones work in human sexual attraction?
They may be odorless and colorless and their function may be
mysterious, but human pheromones at last have the zest of
scientific truth. Researchers at the University of Chicago
have demonstrated that compounds swabbed from the
‘underarms’ of young women at different times of the month
can alter the length of other women’s menstrual cycles,
compressing or expanding the cycles in predictable
fashion….
What is the force that lights the fuse between two
complete strangers? What current pulses through their veins,
engorges their hearts, occupies their minds and numbs their
texting fingers?
As magic formulas go, sexual chemistry must surely
be the most valuable. It’s intoxicating effects are more
pleasurable and more powerful than any drug and when it hits,
it hits hard. There are the rushes of ecstacy, the gut wrenching
anticipation, fluttering, dizziness, and the diminished
concentration that turns day-dreaming into a full-time job.
And then there are the side effects. A positively Colombian
annihilation of appetite and its confidence- boosting by-product,
weight loss.
But no one knows what “it” is. Scientists have managed to
map our genetic blueprint. They understand the subtleties
of hormones and the complexities of the emotional brain.
But the thing that makes two people click remains a mystery.
Theories abound as to what, or why. Those looking for a
magic bullet (or Cupid’s arrow) tend to favour the notion
of pheromones – scents secreted by the sweat glands in the
‘armpits’….
Science of Love – Cupid’s Chemistry:
Why do we love, what is passion, and why is intense
desire between two people sometimes called “chemistry”?
There are, in fact, three distinct stages of love; each with
their own characteristic emotional profile and scientific explanation.
First is lust. Lust is driven by our sex hormones testosterone
and oestrogen. These hormones are what get us ‘out on the pull’.
After lust comes attraction. This is the love-struck phase;
the time when we lose our appetite, can’t sleep, and can’t
concentrate. This is what we know as falling in love.
The psycho-physico chemistry of love:
When two people are attracted to each other, a
virtual explosion of adrenaline-like
“nuerochemicals” gush forth.
Also, involved in chemistry are dopamine and
norepinephrine, chemical cousins of amphetamines.
Dopamine makes us feel good and norepinephrine
stimulates the production of adrenaline. It makes
our heart race!
These three chemicals combine to give us
infatuation. Tht is why new lovers feel euphoric
and energized, and float on air. New lovers can
make love for hours and talk all night for weeks
on end.
Now, imagine the combined effect of hormones and
pheromones.
It’s bound to be mind boggling!
To be present with
Romantic Love = Disillusionment… disappointment…. manipulation… let down…
LOL
What me, cynical?
I find the best sort of Love comes from friends and family. You know, love with NO strings attached, long term eternal love. Acceptance of “me” regardless of what I do (or don’t!) For me the best thing is feeling accepted AS I am now, but knowing the people who love and care about me are always there, rooting for me, wanting better…. Its about loyalty and respect. Without all the hormones and lust!!!
Love= Stage One on the road to Compassion.
LOVE is a 4 letter word………
……and so is SH!T
just look here
What love really means, is definately up to you.
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This is what love is to me:
Love is the deepest bond you can share with someone.
You love your family unconditionally, you may not always like who they are as a person but you still love them.
Love is being content with ones self because you know you will be accepted and cherished no matter what.
Love is the personification of all that is good in this world.
Love is giving yourself up to a person and trusting them completely and without fault.
Love means something different for everyone, though some people’s perceptions may be similar.
= how it feels to be alive
Love is the most wonderful,soaring feeling known to all mankind.
Two things, love makes you happy. and the other one, love is…a traitor. It’s a long thread where to people stand at the two ends of it. Both in love. But some end up with another. Some live happily ever after. Some have more challenges yet to come. Some, are star-crossed
love is the best.
‘What in the world is the difference between loving a person and being selfishly attached to them? Love is the sincere wish for others to be happy, and to be free from suffering.
Having realistically recognized others’ kindness as well as their faults, love is always focused on the other person’s welfare. We have no ulterior motives to fulfill our self-interest, or to fulfill our desires; to love others simply because they exist. Selfish attachments, on the other hand, exaggerates others’ good qualities and makes us crave to be with them. When we’re with them, we’re happy, but when we’re separated from them, we are often miserable. These selfish attachments are linked with expectations of what others should be or do. Is love as it is usually understood in most societies really love? or selfish attachments ? Let’s examine this a bit more. Generally we are attracted to people either because they have qualities we value or because they help us in some way. If we observe our own thought processes mindfully, and carefully – we’ll notice that we look for specific qualities in others. Some of these qualities we find attractive, others are those our parents, or society value. We examine someone’s looks, education, financial situation, social status. This is how most of us decide on whether or not the person holds any true value to us. In addition, we judge people as worthwhile according to how they relate to us! If they help us, praise us, make us feel secure, listen to what we have to say, care for us when we are sick or depressed, we consider them good people, and it is this type of people we are most likely to be more attracted to. But this is very biased, for we judge them only in terms of how they relate to “us”, as if we are the most important person in the world. After we’ve judged certain people to be good for us, whenever we see them it appears to us as if goodness is coming from them, but if we are more aware, we recognize that we have projected this goodness onto them. Desiring to be with the people a lot who make us feel good, we become emotional yo-yo’s – when we’re with these people, we’re up, when we’re not with these people, we’re down. Furthermore, we form fixed concepts of what our relationships with those people will be and thus have expectations of them. When they do not live up to our expectations of them, we’re very disappointed, or may become angry. We want them to change so that they will they will match what we think they are. But our projections and expectations come from our own minds, not from the other people. Our problems arise not because others aren’t who we thought they we’re, but because we mistakenly thought they were something they aren’t.
Checklist: “I Love You if __________ ”
What we call love is most often selfish attachments.
It is actually a disturbing attitude that overestimates the qualities of another person. We then cling to tightly to that person, thinking our happiness depends on that person.
‘Love, on the other hand, is an open. calm and relaxed attitude. We want someone to be happy, and free from suffering simply because they exist. While selfish attachments are uncontrolling and too sentimental while Love is direct and powerful. Selfish attachments obscures our judgment and we become jealous, impatient, angry, and impartial, helping only our dear ones and harming those who we don’t like. Love clarifies our minds, and we access a situation by thinking of the greatest good for everyone. Attachments are based on selfishness, while Love is founded upon cherishing others, even those who do not look very appealing to the eyes. Love looks beyond all the superficial appearances, and dwells on the fact that they are just like us: they want inner peace, happiness, and want to avoid suffering. If we see unattractive, dirty, ignorant people, we feel repulsed because our selfish minds want to know attractive, intellectual, clean, and talented people. Love, on the other hand, never evaluates others by these superficial standards and looks much deeper into the person. Love recognizes that regardless of the others’ appearances, their experience is the same as ours: they seek inner peace-to be happy, to be free from sufferings, and want to do their best to avoid problems. When we’re selfishly attached, we’re not mentally and emotionally free. We overly depend on and cling to another person to fulfill our mental and our emotional needs. We fear losing the person, feeling we’d be incomplete without him. However, this does not mean that we should suppress our emotional needs or become aloof, alone and totally independent, for that too does not solve the problem. We must simply realize our unrealistic needs, and slowly seek to eliminate them. The core problem is that most of us seek to be loved, rather than to love. We yearn to be understood by others rather than to understand them. In all honesty, our sense of emotional insecurities comes from the selfishness obscuring our own minds.
‘We can develop self-confidence by recognizing our inner potential to become a selfless human being with many, magnificent qualities, then we’ll develop a true and accurate feeling of self-confidence. And then we’ll seek to increase true unconditional love, without selfish attachments, to increase compassion, wisdom and to cultivate loving-kindness, patience and understanding. Under the influence of selfish attachments we’re bound by our emotional reactions to others. When they are nice to us, we’re happy. When they ignore us, or speak sharply to us, we take it personally and are unhappy. But pacifying these selfish attachment doesn’t mean we become hard-hearted. Rather, without selfish attachment there will be space in our hearts and minds for genuine affection and impartial love for them. We’ll be actively involved with them. As we learn to subdue our selfish attachments, we can have successful friendships and personal relationships with others. These relationships will be richer because of the freedom and respect which the relationships will be based on. We’ll care about the happiness and the misery of ‘all’ human beings equally, simply because everyone is the same in wanting/needing inner peace and happiness. However, our lifestyles and interests may be more compatible with those of some people more so than with others and that is alright. In any case, our relationships will be based on mutual love, mutual interests, and the wish to help each other in life.’
Love = A Pain.
But its worth it.
Coming home from work and being pleased to see my wife..Im easily pleased..
love is madness
You can only understand Love by knowing what it is not… because there is no way of knowing what it is.
Most people think that there are many different kinds of love, but this is not true. There is only one Love and that is unconditional Love. You hear people say they Love this or that when, what they really mean is like or they have great affection.
Take for instance your mother or father, many people will say they Love them, but this not true because this thing they think is Love is “CONDITIONED” and is therefor not Love.
Anything that has a condition has a beginning and ultimately an end… and Love has no end or beginning. Please be aware that not even your thoughts can touch Love because they too have an end and a beginning.
Love is akin to “TRUTH” in fact they are one and the same thing. When you have that thing that touches you inside is it a reminder, or recognition to that which is experienced from the outside. In other words what you see outside is also inside and you respond to it accordingly.
So in fact you actually are Truth… That’s why it makes sense to Love all those you meet even if they don’t like you, they can’t help it because they have not realised the Truth.
It’s a very difficult thing to put into words because words are so limited and Love has not limits… Hope this helps.
Best regards.
Well love means getting another half of ur self is what i think thats what is I haven’t experienced it but that what i think it is like 100%