What is love?

[Geoff-Allen]

Yes. I know. It's a big question.

I just found a site that has many views on the matter - from 400 years of literature.

Some of the authors were "new" to me!

You may agree with some and disagree with others.

Here is the site -

https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/01/01/what-is-love/

Feel free to share any thoughts/impressions you may have ...

All the best!

 

[Rival]

It's a song by whatshisface Howard Jones.

 

[osgart]

the delight of one's heart.

true love is loyalty to what is true. the virtues. those whom delight in virtue.

 

[siti]

 

[Polymath257]

Hello oxytocin!

 

[siti]

Hello oxytocin!

10/10 - I oxytocin, but then I'm a chemist by profession - what's your excuse?

 

[Polymath257]

10/10 - I oxytocin, but then I'm a chemist by profession - what's your excuse?

LOL. I'm a mathematician, but I love to read biochemistry books (among others). Oxytocin has some very complicated biologic effects, not just for pro-social behaviors. But, yes, very interesting molecule.

Are you aware of the resemblance to vasopressin? There is a conjecture of a gene duplication event. Way cool!

 

[sun rise]

Rumi on love:

“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”

“Love is the bridge between you and everything.”

 

[Sunstone]

There are several kinds of love, but just one word for all of them.

I think Helen Fisher might be right in that there are distinct neural and chemical pathways to at least three different kinds of love . Erotic, romantic, and attached. But her work doesn't even begin to take into consideration some other kinds of love, such as parent/child.

 

[siti]

LOL. I'm a mathematician, but I love to read biochemistry books (among others). Oxytocin has some very complicated biologic effects, not just for pro-social behaviors. But, yes, very interesting molecule.

Are you aware of the resemblance to vasopressin? There is a conjecture of a gene duplication event. Way cool!

Isn't it - I am especially intrigued by the connections of these inherited neurogenetic biochemical processes to 'spirituality' as well as other complex social cognition stuff. But I guess what impresses me most is the creatively elegant frugality with which the evolutionary process has, quite by chance, re-ustilised the same biochemical stuff for a thousand different "purposes" from altruism and breast-feeding to sex and social-order sensitivity.

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Thanks for the feed-back.

Here's a quote I like:

"The people who are the hardest to love are the ones who need it the most."

Love Archives - Page 5 of 12 - Tiny Buddha

Cheers!

 

[atanu]

Love — the so called emotional-physical response is result of Love — the verve. Realisation of oneness of the being makes the latter process conscious and manifests the former effortlessly.

For most of us however, the former happens unconsciously or through chemicals.

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Try the following google search -

evelynlim.com love

You have to love yourself first before you can truly love other people.

Enjoy your day!

 

[Geoff-Allen]

Here's a movie I just found -

What is Love?

Have a good one!