WHAT IS LOVE?
By morris134
@morris134 (5)
Nigeria
8 responses
@Eisenherz (2908)
• Portugal
28 Jan 07
Love is a basic dimension of human experience that is variously conveyed as a sense of tender affection, an intense attraction, the foundation of intimacy and good interpersonal chemistry, willing self-sacrifice on behalf of another, and as an ineffable sense of affinity or connection to nature, other living beings, or even that which is unseen. It manifests itself in feelings, emotion, behavior, thoughts, perception and attitude. It influences, underlies and defines major patterns in interpersonal relationships and self-identification.
@mihix2007 (284)
• Romania
7 Dec 06
It is good to love, but love is difficult. For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation. That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn. With their whole being, with all their forces, gathered around their solitary, anxious, upward-beating heart, they must learn to love. But learning time is always a long, secluded time ahead and far on into life, is solitude, a heightened and deepened kind of aloneness for the person who loves. Loving does not at first mean merging, surrendering or uniting with another person (what would a union be for two people who are unclarified, unfinished, and still incoherent? ) ; it is a high inducement for the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world, to become world in himself for the sake of another person; it is great, demanding claim on him, something that chooses him and calls him to vast distances. Only in this sense, as the task of working on themselves (to hearken and to hammer day and night), may young people use the love that is given to them. Merging and surrendering and every kind of Communicali is not for them (who must still, for a long, long time, save and gather themselves), it is the ultimate, is perhaps that for which human lives as yet barely large enough
@sweetcakes (3504)
• United States
23 Nov 06
am patient and kind;
do not envy;
do not parade myself and
am not puffed up.
do not behave rudely,
do not seek my own
am not provoked,
think no evil;
do not rejoice in iniquity, but
rejoice in the truth;
bear all things, believe all things, hope all things,
endure all things.
never fail
