It is the essence of Truth...

...love...

This is such a good question, Angelsbe2.

I had the hardest time answering this prior to reading so much about spirituality. I think it was Louise Hay that explain that before you come into this world you choose the parents that resemble what you want to learn in this world. She also said that you choose other souls you will meet on earth that will best teach you the lesson you are here to learn. I think it might be strange of me to believe that your soul is spread out amongst many people. When you meet a person that you are supposed to meet, there is certain sensation (love). Whether that person is your mom, dad, freind, spouse or aquaintence. Love could mean many things and have many purposes to your life and possibly in other lives. These people start to put together your soul if you will and complete you as a person or a being. With that you feel content and satisfied in your life. You are awakened. Not everyone feels love or a connection with their souls. Those are the unhappy ones.

Love to me is the ability to appreciate each person or even animal you meet in this life as if it where your very own puzzle you were putting together in order to complete yourself.

As best as I am
able to understand, it is the primordial vibration emitted by Source to
project all within into flow, giving expression and honor of knowing, to
every nature within.....the primordial vibration that encompasses all
frequencies in expression. That primordial vibration (love) is the eternal movement in which
all tones move individually and in an unbroken cohesive bond, as one. .....each held in most profound knowledge of its essence and its relationship in movement within. It is what exist because of and as a result of the primordial vibration. It is the response of primordial desire, as Source projects into being from its state of nonbeing. It is that same desire and response in us to express our inner essence. I know this sounds clinical but felt with the heart, the grandness of its expression is beyond words.

Love is a word.....

It describes a 'feeling' .

A feeling that we get when we are within proximity of what IS...Which is what i refered to earlier as Truth.

Its like the warmth of the Sun. If it were not present we can not feel its warmth.Even as I say that I feel how inadequate the example is because the sun can be destroyed and warmth can be fabricated....

Love is real it comes from a True Source and nothing can replace it.....

If you 'feel' love then your close to what IS.

You cannot own love...manipulate love...give love...take love... you can only sense it... get out of its way...and allow it...

It IS!

Instead of saying I love you it would be more appropriate to say I sense the Love that Is while in your presence...

Its is the very essence that sustains this experience Now...It need only to be realized.

Love IS because Truth IS because Source IS...

...love...

<~> <~> <~> <~> <~>(((LOVE)))<~> <~> <~> <~> <~>

Exploring.....

The primordial movement made in awareness and intent of mutual benefit for the whole and all natures within.......first vibration of love.

Love is moving in awareness and intent of mutual benefit for all.

Exploring....

All moving for mutual benefit....the Earth, the human, the plants, rain, wind, sun, atoms coming together in creation,duality and non duality spirit and matter, movement and awareness, emotion and intellect, heart and mind, etc....all moving in mutually beneficial patterns. This is love.

Okay, I'm getting carried away here.

I like all your replies, love is all there is

LOVE IS ALL THERE IS is my favorite quote on my personal profile.

However, the question "What is Love?" opens up a wondrous space. Thank you, angelsbe.

I often find the most helpful answer in the space following the question... where there are no words.

Love,

beingggggg

It's not a feeling, sentiment, sensation or emotion. Any of those things can morph from a positive to a negative in a heartbeat. This is not love.

The only way I can describe it is* it's a way of being in relationship with the world .*

The best way I can think of to describe that relationship is:

1) to give the (moment, whatever, or whoever) one's full attention and compassion

2) be willing to feel all feelings (pleasant and unpleasant) that arise, without resistance or judgment

3) to unconditionally forgive others for traumas suffered

4) to unconditionally forgive oneself for traumas one has inflicted

Love

LAFF

interesting femi94ce...1 I believe I can and do

2 I get confused with this one often, to feel all feelings that arise without resistance or judgment, I only do this if I am at home alone, painful ones that is or if I think who I am with will think it is reasonable under the circumstances for me to cry....otherwise it is hidden. Classic example yesterday I felt two people were taking the Mickey out of me and I accepted that may or may not be happening and just went with the flow....to feel the feeling of being mocked, taken for a fool who could not see through the falseness of the situation...I guess I did feel that didn't I, but that is a judgement? difficult....that one I don't do

3 I forgive others for trauma I have suffered and forgive myself for traumas I have inflicted but I am not convinced it is unconditional, maybe it is now but wasn't in the past

you made me think, how about you, do you do all of this? interesting

Hi angelsbe,

Agreed #2,3 and 4 are challenging. Your example of "being taken for a fool" - there's a pejorative label attached to "fool", but the holiest people are also the most "foolish". Interesting experience. I think you did great. Now all you have to do is step 2 on any thoughts or feelings you have about the experience.

It took me a loooooooong time to accept without judgment my inner "idiot". It's funny how life will send us all experiences that point to this most disowned, least desirable, most shameful, and yet holiest fragment of "identity". We all have it, because the one within that wants to be the "sage" cannot recognize that its own shadow is the fool. The two cannot be separated, nohow.

Here's the cool thing about #3 and #4 - if I say "YES!" to everything, no matter how unpleasant (do #2), then the following steps 3 and 4 come easily and naturally.

What to do about pain that has already backed up inside, that is ancient history but still feels sharp today when called into mind? The proof that it's not "in the past", even though the event itself is clearly long ago, is how emotionally charged those memories still are. If the pain is still present, then the opportunity to do step 2 on it is still there. You haven't missed anything!

A number of years ago, I was given a really simple 5 step process to discharge all kinds of crap, long past and immediate. I can't reproduce it here because the material is on a website and it's copyright, but if you're interested, PM me and I'll send you the link. Or google "paincatcher" or "christinus", the 5 step process is right there on the index page.

Cheers!

LAFF