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Nothing is more simple and more terrifing than to write the word
"love", word that lives in us and beyond us in a primordial and pure unity,
word that means death and life together, eternity and nothingness, total
sincerity, absolute abnegation, a word that is a way to Heaven or Hell.
Word indefinite, but however a word that can be defined, a synthesis
of some terrible contrasts like "Fiery frost and freezed fire", love is a
simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion.
Love is the centre of the Univers. All things gravitate arround it, all our
acts, our feelings are influenced by the power of love.
More words have not been written about any other aspect of our being.
No topic is more misunderstood. Search for your answers amongst these prose
and perhaps you will discover what has eluded all before you: "For it is
the intrigue of love that drives us forever forward, giving us our reason
for being. Love give us life, and for the blessed many, life gives them
love."(Anonymous)
A human being conceives different types of love: for family, for
friends (a strong feeling of caring about someone, especially a member of
your family or a close friend), for God, for ourselves, for nature, for
animals, for certain objects, but, in fact, when we first hear the word
"love", we think of the romantic meaning: a strong feeling of liking and
caring about someone, especially combined with sexual attraction.
Does true love exist? a relative question for our mind and especially
for our soul. "Nothing human is good enough to be loved, but every decent
human being has some capacity for loving".
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast,
it is not proud. It is not rude, 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." ( I Corinthians 13:4-8a (NIV)).
Love is best seen as devotion and action, not an emotion. Love is not
exclusively based on how we feel. Certainly our emotions are involved, but
they cannot be our only criteria for love. True devotion will always lead
to action - true love.
We can only identify true love and know when we have found it, based
on the Word of God. When we match our relationships up to what the Bible
says that love is -
and we are honestly prepared to make a life-long commitment to that person
-- then we can say that we are truly "in love." The three keys to that
statement are:
We have to...
1) look at the Word of God
2) be completely honest with ourselves
3) understand the level of commitment that comes with true love.
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