Some Thoughts On Love

Are our thoughts on love universal?

How do I perceive love? How do you perceive love?

These are a few of my thoughts...

Where our heart is, there we follow. Do we love money, or do we love "Love"?

In the words of the Bible, "Love is patient and is kind".

God is love. Caring is of God. God is always available, always.

Love speaks of the heart; it is heart's truth.

Love with your heart, do not hold back.

Treasure feelings, as they let you know you are alive and connected.

Compassion is the start of love.

To be hurt is to feel an aspect of love.

Is hatred an aspect of love, for to have capacity to hate, one has capacity to love?

Love is learned by being loved, by receiving love, by giving love.

The hardest love is learning to love yourself, and often the rest follows.

Accept yourself for who you are as this gives you a strong base from which to love others.

Love grows when you feel alive and connected to the world.

We feel alive and useful when we are giving to the world, using the talents we have a passion for to the best of our abilities.

We may live our dreams. We may lose our dreams.

Pure love is unconditional.

Unconditional acceptance is loving people as they are, in spite of what they may do.

Unconditional acceptance of us by others helps us truly accept ourselves and feel loved.

Love accepts our own and other people’s imperfections as of no consequence.

Love may mean discipline of others, like our children.

We show love by guiding others, sometimes by correcting wrong behaviour.

Love is situation and time dependent, as we love different things and different people differently, depending on where we are in life’s journey.

We mature and grow in love. We change who we love, and what we love, over time.

We change our perspectives of what attractiveness means as we mature.

Our love for our parents is like a tangible bond whether we are young or old.

Our love for our children is an endless love, whether they be young or old.

We often think people who show strong emotions are people who love deeply, and we may be mistaken.

Sometimes the most love is felt by the silent.

Sometimes the most emotion and hurt is felt by those who mask it.

We love when we love enough to set people free to find their own way, to find their own loves.

Love may seem cruel when others are harmed in the name of love, but this is not real love but a warped version of possession.

Sometimes lessons in love can hurt us to the core.

We grow through love's hurt.

Often our greatest love has no reward.

We may lose those we love; we may experience loss and grief.

The hardest loss is never being able to say "goodbye".

Sometimes we only know then that we loved another.

Do not wait to say "I love you", to show love, to feel love.

1 Corinthians 13 (World English Bible):

1If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing. 3If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.

4Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud, 5doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; 6doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with. 9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; 10but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with. 11When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things. 12For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known. 13But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.