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Love is defined in many ways, as love can be used to express a variety of feelings for people, places and things. The different loves are usually categorized as:
Romantic Love- Defined as feeling for a partner, a wife or husband. This may also incorporate eros, erotic love, though many times eros does not require romance.
Familial Love- This love centers around the immediate family unit and family members. And though families have their problems, love may still prevail as to keep families together, especially in times of societal hardships when family may be the only thing one can rely on.
Platonic Love- This is the feelings and ties between friends who, over time, have build a relationship of trust, support and well-being. This type of love is non-sexual and can be attained between all genders.
Narcissistic Love- Though it has been said that one must love themselves before loving another, narcissism represents a type of love for oneself that transcends others. It is usually protrayed as self-center, selfish and ego-centered.
Religious Love- Love of God, or an interpretation of a supreme power, is the most profound of love as expressed through the Biblical passages of Corinthians. As humans we find that living up to this definition of love is the most challenging. For those unfamiliar with this passage, it is as follows:
"If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." 1 Corinthians 13
Can you imagine a world made up of a love like this?
"For one is not born with prejudicial or racist tendencies. It is a learned hatred passed from generation to generation by parents and society. Think of where the world might be today if we could teach love as easily as we seem to teach hate." T.H. Ferraro
They say that anger is love disappointed, but it can also be frustrated, and often misunderstood. Active communication is the way back to finding the trust, healing the wounds and re-establishing an even better relationship. But often it takes a third party so see and hear what those who are too close, cannot.
Romantic Love- Defined as feeling for a partner, a wife or husband. This may also incorporate eros, erotic love, though many times eros does not require romance.
Familial Love- This love centers around the immediate family unit and family members. And though families have their problems, love may still prevail as to keep families together, especially in times of societal hardships when family may be the only thing one can rely on.
Platonic Love- This is the feelings and ties between friends who, over time, have build a relationship of trust, support and well-being. This type of love is non-sexual and can be attained between all genders.
Narcissistic Love- Though it has been said that one must love themselves before loving another, narcissism represents a type of love for oneself that transcends others. It is usually protrayed as self-center, selfish and ego-centered.
Religious Love- Love of God, or an interpretation of a supreme power, is the most profound of love as expressed through the Biblical passages of Corinthians. As humans we find that living up to this definition of love is the most challenging. For those unfamiliar with this passage, it is as follows:
"If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." 1 Corinthians 13
Can you imagine a world made up of a love like this?
"For one is not born with prejudicial or racist tendencies. It is a learned hatred passed from generation to generation by parents and society. Think of where the world might be today if we could teach love as easily as we seem to teach hate." T.H. Ferraro
They say that anger is love disappointed, but it can also be frustrated, and often misunderstood. Active communication is the way back to finding the trust, healing the wounds and re-establishing an even better relationship. But often it takes a third party so see and hear what those who are too close, cannot.
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