Thread: Tell me about love

just like anything there's the good and the bad. -- that 'head over heels' 'butterflies in the stomach' feeling is good... then when you're sorting out her clothes and she's not talking to you because you don't want to go to that stupid ass dance class that she singed us up for..... you kind of wonder why you're still there since you're not head over heels anymore and her heels aren't over her head anymore...

yeah... that's love.

Originally Posted by jacobo

just like anything there's the good and the bad. -- that 'head over heels' 'butterflies in the stomach' feeling is good... then when you're sorting out her clothes and she's not talking to you because you don't want to go to that stupid ass dance class that she singed us up for..... you kind of wonder why you're still there since you're not head over heels anymore and her heels aren't over her head anymore...

yeah... that's love.

lol

Trandescential love.

Originally Posted by Carôusoul

You all keep saying that there used to be love, but your basing this entirely on romantic literacy, like romeo and juliet and pride and prejudice etc. but nowadays there is far far less random promiscuousness, woman have rights now.

Of course there is love.

Which was my point, again.

From the notes I keep writing from the experiences I have on this inward journey:

30-Love

In discussing attachment and desire we talk of love, however we
need to define what real or true love is. When we take a moment to
examine our true feelings we have towards things in our lives we
see that love may not really be what we are feeling.
Love is defined by many of the worlds sacred teachings and
teachers as a concern for the well being of others. True Love is
compassion and selfless thought, along with a sense of giving from
and of oneself for the good of other living beings.
Examine your feelings behind the word love as used when you
tell someone that you love them. Is it really Love? When carefully
examined many such feelings are found to be more to the nature of
attraction, attachment, and or desire . Those feelings give rise to
other feelings such as jealousy, anger, sorrow, and greed. These are
just a few of the "poisons" that start to work within us when desire
and attachment causes us to speak or think from the standpoint of
"I want". Nothing that comes from attraction, desire, and
attachment have anything to do with selflessness, compassion, nor
giving. Love alone is the author of selflessnes, compassion and
giving.
Society conditions us from birth to the lie that love is something
we feel as an attraction to external things rather than being a
condition of genuine concern for others. We are lulled into the
belief of a false definition of love. We trade what is true, real, and
fulfilling for something that looks and sounds good, but is full of
emptiness and frustration. In effect we trade giving for taking.
True Love has no demands or expectations, it is not an attraction,
an attachment, nor a desire. Rather, Love is a "mindset" or a "state
of being" of which one is in or is not in . A state where concern is
towards the well being of others.
Love is an outward pouring of ones energy towards others., not an
inwardly directed collecting of other energies.

Originally Posted by NonDualistic

From the notes I keep writing from the experiences I have on this inward journey:

Cool thanks for sharing that!!

I thought I was in love. Idk we just clicked, i was never shy around him. i could be myself, do whatever i want, and tell him everything. and just looking in his eyes made me cry because it just felt so real. Sometimes I wonder if i could ever feel like i did with him with anyone else. Maybe it was true love, and it ended so i'll never love anyone the same again. It seems like nobody even compares to him.