Does True Love Exist?
Does True Love Exist?
Exploring the many sides to finding and embracing love
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I was reviewing my life recently, thinking about friends and lovers from the past, and how I related to the idea of love bak them as apposed to now, especially romantic love.
My coaching clients often ask:
· What are the types of love?
· What is the true meaning of love?
· What is true love?
· …and my favorite “Does true love exist?”
Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. An example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother differs from the love of a spouse, which differs from the love of food. Most commonly, love refers to a feeling of a strong attraction and emotional attachment.
Love is considered to be both positive and negative, with its virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection, as "the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another" and its vice representing human moral flaw, akin to vanity, selfishness, amour-propre, and egotism, as potentially leading people into a type of mania, obsessiveness or codependency.
It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions toward other humans, one's self, or animals. In its various forms, love acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts. Love has been postulated to be a function that keeps human beings together against menaces and to facilitate the continuation of the species.
Ancient Greek philosophers identified six forms of love…
essential love
familial love,
friendly love or platonic love,
romantic love, self-love,
guest love,
divine love
Modern authors have distinguished further varieties of love:
unrequited love,
empty love,
companionate love,
consummate love,
infatuated love,
self-love,
courtly love.
Numerous cultures have also distinguished love through culturally unique words, definitions, or expressions of love in regard to specified "moments" currently lacking in the English language.
Scientific research on emotion has increased significantly over the past two decades. The color wheel theory of love defines three primary, three secondary, and nine tertiary love styles, describing them in terms of the traditional color wheel. The triangular theory of love suggests "intimacy, passion, and commitment" are core components of love. Love has additional religious or spiritual meaning. This diversity of uses and meanings combined with the complexity of the feelings involved makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, compared to other emotional states.
When I hear the word love, I often think of that song by Foreigner “I Want to Know What Love Is”. I sing it in my head all the time.
So, let’s talk about love!
One can speak of a love of art, a dog, a house, or some type of food. Then there is interpersonal love, and the distinctions between the love that might exist between family members, friends, sexually engaged lovers, and even strangers who share a sexual experience and choose to call the act “making love.”
Many scientists believe that much of what we consider love is merely biological - a genetic/chemical influence at the core of our thoughts and feelings. In their perspective love is simply “sexual attraction and attachment.” Of course, it all gets much deeper than that.
It may be foolish and a waste of time to attempt to define love. “Love” is what it is. One could say that at the deepest level - to experience intimacy, passion commitment, selfless sacrifice, and detachment is to know love. To know love in this way is to be in the Wisdom Mind. Love is cultural, biological, social, and psychological, and it is also spiritual. It cannot be named but is at the core of all that matters. It enables us to offer selfless sacrifice.
Love oh love so sweetly bestows,
A nameless truth in my heart it flows,
And along its path the rhythm shows, love
Come sweet seekers gently gather
Learn to love and trust each other,
It will bind your hearts together in, love
..Remember…Love and life is a process, not a conclusion.
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