Oh tell me the truth about love

[blazeofglory]

Love is no this not that alone and love is a combination of all in fact. There is not just joy but lots of pain too, and not just amusing but lots of problems and a rose has thorns and we forget the thorns when obsessed with the flower. We do not a love story that is only flowery and not spiky. Man has both hate and love and both lives side by side.

People have to understand this intricacy of love.
People see things on the surface not deep down in point of fact.

[Buh4Bee]

Love is harmony of both the pain one must endure to love and the joy that is very seldom and infrequently experienced. You get little of one side and too much of the other. A little cynical?

[Granny5]

Love is everything. The possibility, the need and want, the joy and the pain of love is what makes life bearable and worth living. Pain is minor compared to the rewards.

[tailor STATELY]

Expressions of Love, by tailor STATELY


Anticipatory... a touch, a caress, a kiss
shivers of warm, heated passion
yearning bliss

Familial... bonded with bright children's faces
heartstrings tugged at arrivals and leavings
hugs, cuddles, and teeth braces

Lustful... with vigorous desire
passion felt, rigorous
an unquenchable fire

Mature... impassioned through life's span
a state of mind, not an age
no bounds on woman nor man

Mournful... heartfelt, achingly lost
an ending, a leaving, a loss
world upended, tossed

Religious... of God and His teaching
rapt, devout, warm love
we, Heaven beseeching

Unrequited... 'twas never to be
unanswered, unknown
unwanted, by thee

Youthful... furtive, mischievous, artful display
exploring, self doubting, life's too slow
knowing all, all for today


9/17/2003


Love of poetry, love of solitude, love of a 'good time', love for a puppy, puppy love, true love, a lost love, unrequited love; we bandy the word love for much in this earthly vale. Yes, we mix our sorrows and pains, our passions with love as we experience life.

My faith has an axiom that states: in all things there must be an opposition; which is akin to the Eastern concept of 'yin' and 'yang' (from wikipedia):

It is impossible to talk about yin or yang without some reference to the opposite: yin–yang are rooted together. Since yin and yang are created together in a single movement, they are bound together as parts of a mutual whole.

In this example of Eastern culture, as blazeofglory states:

"Man has both hate and love and both lives side by side."

A wiki on 'love' shows other cultural and religious differences in some aspects of love.

A quote from the author John H. Groberg sums up much of my feelings of love with regards to my faith:

"Every person who comes to earth is a spirit son or daughter of God. Since all love emanates from God, we are born with the capacity and the desire to love and to be loved. One of the strongest connections we have with our premortal life is how much our Father and Jesus loved us and how much we loved Them. Even though a veil was drawn over our memory, whenever we sense true love, it awakens a longing that cannot be denied."

I wrote a 3-word 'poem' in the thread of the same name yesterday (http://www.online-literature.com/for...=36547&page=14) that epitomizes my thought on Christian faith with regards to 'love' that may be further elucidated as: 'love' as a commandment; 'love' as an integral part of diety; and 'love' as a covenant, or 2-way promise (the title is mere geeks-play):

Alt 3

I AM
L♥ve

12-3-2009
tailor STATELY

Thank you for this thread. I look forward to more comments.

[MarkC]

Hi,

These are some of the quotes that i think define it:

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
James A. Baldwin

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost

MarkC

[Nax]

To love is to suffer, the key is to find someone worth suffering for.

To my understanding of it, love is human. We are created to love. Not just on a physical species-species level of love, but love things in general in a complex and continually changing manner. Love doing things, love animals, plants, the world around us. To feel an emotional connection with our surroundings as a whole.

When we do not love, we as humans, and truly the species as a whole, begin to degenerate. We lose love for nature and we begin destroying it, we lose love for one another and we start wars, become cynics, hermits etc. We start to destroy ourselves personally without having love given, or something to give love too. Without a love of a hobby, or a job, we become depressed, lost, we manufacture things in our subconcious which are self destructive to the point where it will actually overcome our survival instinct. In this manner, man is truly a slave to his emotions, a sacrifice we have had to make for conciousness.

Thats my take anyway, love is the quintessential component to the soul, without it, we are broken.

[angel92]

This is interesting because in my AP English Class we are going over themes in the nover "Frankenstein". I am trying to describe love within the creature point of view. The creature sees love as a partner that is an equal in appearance. He is willing to accept the fact that he will never be accepted into the human society but he is content with the fact of having someone that will understand him. He has this love connection with the cottagers also but he is unable to be loved back. The creature is willing to isolate himself just so he may have the feeling of love and this emotion that overpowers us all. We tend to do thing that we may not want to do for example we may isolate ourselves from our family without even knowing about it.

[aquarium444]

Love is something that the writers write about and the poets try to define, but it is never an easy subject. I personally think that the best love is related somehow to God but not humans. It is not very interesting at all, especially since nobody knows what they are talking about if there is no agreement on the subject. I wonder if God will punish those writers who persist in that philosophy.