LOVE
OVERVIEW
Love is a concept surviving through history, though radically altering it's meaning and significance from time to time and from culture to culture. love is both an experience not universally understood or shared and a romantic ideal widespread in our culture. Hence a choice among definitions of love is possible. Certainly the range of possibilities is at least as great as it seemed to the Greeks,who placed eros, or physical love, at one end of the spectrum and agape, or spiritual love, at the other. The amount of unhappiness suffered in the name of love suggest that very often people's expectations about love do not match reality.
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Some Thoughts about Love
*Love takes many forms with various levels of honesty and profundity.
*Only those who posses a strong feeling of self worth can love others honestly and deeply. Feelings of inadequacy prevent individuals from opening up,as well as causing them to seek to achieve self-importance at the expense of others.
*Customs and enviroment,as well as personal inadequacy,often provide barriers to one's ability to express and to be comfortable with feelings of genuine affection.
*We are living at a time when many are recommending the elimination of old-fashioned,outmoded sex-role stereotypes,yet these persist more than we realize. Even when people openly endorse the creed of liberation,however,some are likely to be changing the way they talk,not the way they behave.
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THOUGHTS ON LOVE
Love is all you have to give,
So give it freely while you live.
it is the essence of brotherhood,
And that is why it's strong and good.
Love fills in all of the spaces.
Attracting and holding together all things,
An ultimate joy to all it brings.
Love once given is never really lost,
No matter in what direction it's tossed.
Love continues down thru the ages,
And its work could fill many pages.
Love makes everything come to pass,
Whether to one, or to the mass.
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RECOMMENDED READING
The BIBLE: 1 Cornithians 13 (as well as other chapters)
Song Of Solomon ( The Holy Bible)
Song Of Songs (The Holy Bible)
The Natural History Of Love By : Morton Hunt
(New York:Minerva Press)
A readable social history in which the author shows that there has been no universal view or practice of love throughout western culture.
Symposium By: Plato
(New York Classic)
A dialog of Platos theory on love.
Romeo and Juliet And Tamin of The Shrew By: William Shakesphere
(Various Editions)
An interesting double feature enabling the reader to contrast the romanticism of the youthful Shakesphere with what could be the sexisim of the playwright's maturity.
Anna Karenina By: Leo Tolstoy(London:Oxford University Press)The classic story of tradgedy which befalls a women who dares to defy the standards of her society.
****There are many many more that could be added here ,however I chose these few as they have much insight into various meanings of love.
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Poets Of Love Poems:
just simply type in the name and see what comes up for them.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
Alfred Tennyson
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Ralph Waldo Emerson
John Keats
Emily dickinson
Thomas Moore
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Walt Whitman
W.B. Yeats
Robert Frost
Ezra PoundJohn donne
William Wordsworth
William Shakesphere
and many many more
Hatred is one of the three poisons of the mind. Hatred comes from greed and attachment. It is often said that love breeds hatred. When we love a person too much, our love turns into a desire to possess the other person. If this desire is not satisfied, we become filled with jealousy or hatred for the other person. Compassion is the purest form of love. Compassion is giving to others, without expecting anything in return. When love matures into compassion, there is no room for hatred to grow.
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Love Movies:
What Dreams May Come: Starring: Robin Williams
About the deep love of two soul mates who find themselves facing many tribulations and what depths love will go.
A stirring movie with much insight . a good tear jerker as well as profound wisdom.
The 5th Element: With Bruce Willis
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I believe that God is LOVE. We are made in the image of the Supreme and as such we are a reflection of infinite Love.
Believe in love! It is out there! If there are no miracles in your life, something is wrong!
If someone loves you then they should want your happiness! Love should be given freely. Love is not selfish. The reason for this confusion is really very simple: You do not love your dog in the same way you love your car, or love your sweetheart in the same way you love your country or you love God. One word cannot describe all these different types of love. The English language has but one word for LOVE....yet they find new names for computer parts almost every month!
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Without love in the heart,
Life is like a sapless tree in a barren desert.
What good is a body perfect in outer ways,
If inwardly it is impaired by lack of love?
With love enshrined in the heart, one lives.
Without it, the body is but bone encased in skin
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LOVE...........WHILE YOU YET HAVE THE DAY.............................
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