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From: JUNE MARK A. YAÑEZ
Category: Philosophy of Love
Date: 15 Nov 2000
DESCRIPTION OF LOVE
LOVE is a very powerful, creative, and spontaneous activity of the human soul. It is powerful. It compels a person to act or respond to it, positively or negatively. That is, we either recognize it or ignore it. Most often, we cannot resist its power and thus, we fall unto it and be in it forever.Love is also beautiful which is the very reason why we are so attracted with it.In fact, it is beauty augmented infinitely. Love is also creative. It manifests itself in innumerable ways. There is even no limit to its expression. Thus, the more we love the more we become creative. Lastly, love is spontaneous as it is not pre-meditated and pre-pondered upon so deeply. Without much effort, it shines, it attracts, it animates our souls.
UNDERSTANDING OF LOVE
True, love is not merely a feeling for it always involves choices which are thought about. However the aspect of the cognitive comes later than the affective. In a sense, we do not really cause it nor create it. To love is simply to follow what our heart is telling us. It is basically a response to an invitation.
DEFINITION OF LOVE
LOVE is the free and unconditional response to a magical invitation. An invitation to an excitng journey with the other. At its center, is the willingness to nurture the other, after entering into his or her world and sharing whatever there is to share with, thereby, creating or if not discovering tne best person that you and your companion could possibly ever be.