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Love is
Aug 13, 2015 19:05:04 GMT -5
Post by LonelyForsaken on Aug 13, 2015 19:05:04 GMT -5
Love is struggle of a human Soul to find its complement its stable equilibrium its infinite rest. –
Beggar's love is no love at all. The first sign of love is when love asks nothing, gives everything. –
Books and learning, Yoga and meditation and illumination — all are but dust compared with love. –
Every act of love brings happiness; there is no act of love which does not bring peace and blessedness as its reaction. –
Love immense and infinite, broad as the sky and deep as the ocean — this is the one great gain in life. Blessed is he who gets it –
There are five stages of love. First, man wants help and has a little fear. Second, when God is seen as Father. Third, when God is seen as Mother. Then all women are looked upon as reflections of the Mother-god. With the idea of Mother-god real love begins. Fourth, love for love's sake. Love for love's sake transcends all qualities. Fifth, love in Divine-union. It leads to oneness or super consciousness. –
~Swami Vivekananda
Feel free to add.
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Post by Aish on Aug 14, 2015 11:02:04 GMT -5
When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, "I am in the heart of God." And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.
- Khalil Gibran
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Post by LonelyForsaken on Oct 24, 2015 22:24:24 GMT -5
Love is effort.
LF
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Post by Mikepoet on Feb 14, 2016 19:53:23 GMT -5
Seeing a young me in my son. Trying to help him stop. He is not violent but soo much else is simular. I am a father one. My son is 20 and I'll ride or die now. This was my plan to get in his life after he turned 18. So the am here now and I love my son.
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Post by twistedangel on Feb 17, 2016 5:28:59 GMT -5
I guess everyone's got ideas about love, I read a lot in poems of a kinda 'fairytale love' that IMO don't really exist, but many strive for it..an why so many end in tears.
Others search for 'the one' I don't think there is just one...in a world of billions I reckon there's 1000s of 'the one' all different but all awesome...is just finding the f***er
For myself, love is a rock in a turbulent storm, no need to cling on or fear of losing grip, cos it has a little shelter to rest in
me main cause of concern...WTF have I got to offer a rock?
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Post by LonelyForsaken on Feb 17, 2016 22:13:25 GMT -5
"WTF have I got to offer a rock?" - Nothing more and nothing less than the rock has to offer you. "For myself, love is a rock in a turbulent storm, no need to cling on or fear of losing grip, cos it has a little shelter to rest in" - You see him as shelter in the storm so why is it so hard to believe he sees you the same way? The One and fairytale love - It takes empathy, and a little more. Try to boil down these quotes or find the drive behind a love story and the one thing I always find at the bottom is empathy. Empathy isn't quite enough though, it takes effort. We can empathize with a puppy and love it but it takes effort to care for it. Mike loves his son. What is more natural than that? He empathizes and wants to help but more than that he expresses a willingness to make sacrifices (effort) in his care for this love of his son. I believe you are correct and there are thousands of possible "The One(s)" out there for each of us. But, people fall in love all the time. Falling in love is wonderful, I've done it, but it won't last or mean anything without real empathy. Falling in love with an image or desired perception is a fairytale. Love implies you know the one you profess to connect with. If you're not falling in love with the real person then it's your own lusty desires your falling for. Empathy isn't enough but if your empathy goes deep enough it may spring the desire to make an effort. An effort to sacrifice self, learn all his or her languages, keep up with all their changes, and make promises that are as good as sacred oaths. When you have found someone that feels that way about you you've found The One. Two people feeling this way about each other? Now there is your fairytale. Fortunately there are many levels of love. What all good friends have in common though is reciprocated empathy and effort.
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Love is
Feb 24, 2016 5:25:03 GMT -5
Post by twistedangel on Feb 24, 2016 5:25:03 GMT -5
half the time LF...I am the bloody storm ...but yeah I get wot you saying Empathy yeah I don't disagree...but wot about someone no matter how hard it gets...you can have a real good laugh with ...that to me is a must.
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Feb 24, 2016 6:44:08 GMT -5
Post by LonelyForsaken on Feb 24, 2016 6:44:08 GMT -5
"you can have a real good laugh with ...that to me is a must." - Yes, definitely. That is part of learning their languages.
"but wot about someone no matter how hard it gets" - Now you're getting into the fairytale idea. It doesn’t have to be but for some I think it is. How hard is hard? Anyone who is prone to sexual encounters outside the relationship should consider the idea a fairytale. Hard times and arguing over money, that's when you have each other's back and reassurance. We often hear the experts (what makes them experts anyway) say that communication is the key. I think that is a big part of it. If you really empathize communication becomes easy. That doesn’t mean you're going to like all you hear but at least you know why you're in the dog house. LOL
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Post by twistedangel on Feb 24, 2016 8:10:31 GMT -5
Have I just been called a empathetic dog !!! LOL TBH talking about stuff I find easy...like you say even if it is hard to say or hear...when you been really broke talking all that's left to do..ermm an lots of sex LMAO...oh crap back into the kennel pffft I reckon is about wot you make of it, if both are on the same level it's mostly easy, I never did get the "relationships are hard work" if it's that hard your in the wrong one
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Post by LonelyForsaken on Mar 2, 2016 3:43:25 GMT -5
LMAO! No kennel, just a collar and chain this time. “I reckon is about wot you make of it, if both are on the same level it's mostly easy, I never did get the "relationships are hard work" if it's that hard your in the wrong one” – Yes, I’ve always felt that way. If you really are a team then the worst arguments that come up are of the does he get his new rifle or does she get her roletop with the tax return. If you care and empathies the kids have food and cloths first and who gets what after that really doesn’t matter. He’ll get the rifle next time. As long as there is reciprocation then there on the same level. It’s when someone gets selfish that the kids go hungry and the home is broken. “half the time LF...I am the bloody storm ...but yeah I get wot you saying” – I get what you mean. Pam was a bloody storm and I was her rock, a bit of calm in her chaos. She never could quite believe how much I appreciated her differences. We complimented each other in a lot of ways. Getting repeated calls from the jail house at 3 am and affairs are too much for any rock though.
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Love is
Mar 4, 2016 18:47:17 GMT -5
Post by LonelyForsaken on Mar 4, 2016 18:47:17 GMT -5
"I haven't met many people who believe, let alone understand what I went through for "love." Funny thing is, I don't know that I would want to go back and change it. In numerous ways my life has been enriched from the experience." - I know what you mean. I have said I wish I had never met her but that is a lie. I learned a lot, I gained a lot, and she helped make me a better person. Beyond that we gave each other something unique and shared so much together, I could not give that up and in fact wish to do so again very much.
"Fortunately for those like you and me, we were able to exit relatively in tact (maybe not so much in my case)." - Not at all. I wonder just how many times the man I was has died? I was always a one woman man and honor and loyalty where always held as high virtues in my view but I didn't know shit about love till I met her.
"We have reached a place where we can entertain the possiblility of another love." - That is the part that hurts so much today. All I have wanted to do for a long time is to put this hard won knowledge to good use. To experience again what once enriched and destroyed me. To feel alive again, this time much better armed with understanding. I've been ready for a long time, a very long damned time. People don't want to risk the pain, as if they believe we could live without it.
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Post by LonelyForsaken on May 3, 2017 12:26:36 GMT -5
..a lie, made to be cruel.
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Love is
May 26, 2017 5:17:57 GMT -5
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Post by Mikepoet on May 26, 2017 5:17:57 GMT -5
Love to me has always been like flowers in a vase, what starts out beautiful always wilts. Girls around here say Ive not found mine yet. I mean I mostly fly solo. Lots of chicks act interrested but Im tired of putting so much into relationships only to tire of her or her me. Ive given up on love. Got my son liveing with me now. This puts lots of chicks in their early 20s around. They think they are interrested but I know better. It would be a waiste of my time. Im 50 now and am tired of waisting time. I need a chick maby in her 30s. Shed have to keep up with me. Im still a bundle of energy. Still exercise still scrap. I dislike lazy or flirtacious. Im too picky I guess.
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Love is
Sept 5, 2017 10:16:44 GMT -5
Post by jammartinez760 on Sept 5, 2017 10:16:44 GMT -5
fully agree with LonelyForsaken
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Love is
Dec 28, 2018 6:14:14 GMT -5
Post by ladygunfire89 on Dec 28, 2018 6:14:14 GMT -5
debilitating poison,and a paralyzing cripplement to the soul
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