What is it anyway? It is a short word, easy to spell, difficult to define, and impossible to live without — OR is it really? |
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Dictionary says:
1. An intense feeling of deep affection.
Fondness, tenderness, warmth, intimacy, attachment, endearment, devotion, adoration, doting, worship, idolization, passion, ardor, desire, lust, yearning, infatuation, adulation, compassion, care, caring, regard, concern, friendliness, friendship, kindness, charity, goodwill, sympathy, kindliness, altruism, philanthropy, benevolence, unselfishness, amour
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2. A great interest and pleasure in something.
Liking, proclivity, inclination, disposition, enjoyment, appreciation, soft spot, delight, relish, passion, zeal, zest, enthusiasm, keenness, predilection, fondness, penchant, relish, savor, get off on.
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“Living love is very different from love."
— Martha Creek
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I would love to hear what your “framework”, proof, beliefs, or definitions of love are. |
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I am systemically dismantling all the ones I possibly can. |
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"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
— James Baldwin
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Wonder why? Here are some examples of my “BS”, (belief systems) around the concept of love: If they love me, they will ________. (Fill in the blank.)
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They will care for me,
understand me,
respect me,
include me,
support me,
listen to me,
follow me,
forgive me,
make me number one,
regard me,
won’t hurt me,
ad infinitum.
While they were formed innocently from the mind of a child and the inertia of thousands of years of human beingness, they are nonetheless, FALSE. I ask sincerely that you NOT believe me or my radical notions. Instead, inquire into your own direct consequences and experiences for the reality of it.
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“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
— Lucille Ball
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More definitions:
Phileo — “brotherly love” — love based on common interests or bonds
when you phileo-love someone, it’s a relationship where you give to receive.
Agape — “unconditional love” — literally translated means ‘charity’. Loving someone/something on no conditions (no matter what). When you agape-love, you give for the sake of making the other person happy, because you truly want the best for them. You have no intentions of receiving.
Eros — “erotic” — love based on physical appearance. When you eros-love someone, you give to receive, and may not receive. This type of love is much like lust but lust is not a type of love, it is an infatuation.
OMG — Perhaps, it’s simply nature’s way of tricking people into reproducing.
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“Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings, infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side-by-side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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During these holiday times, the higher energies of the larger influences — sun, moon, patterns, relational and emotional dynamics — let’s do whatever we can do and be more love, instead of seeking it. |
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However you define it --- LOVE --- I encourage you to be aware of it, in you, as you, through you, and sourcing you. Whatever the flavor, I am certain, you are love, you are loved, and certainly by me, sometimes. 😊 Whatever I have with you feels really great.
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“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Greatest of what “could be” love, |
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— Martha Creek
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