just feel it in everyone , it is real food of your soul.
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From my blog entry: http://xtynkt.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/friendship-and-love-from-cute-hamsters/
Friendship and Love defined in a single photo.
How Sweet! 
Love is obviously not what I thought it was. I thought it was everything I have read here. And I want to believe it. I know it's out there. I also know that the word "Love" seems to be thrown around too much.
I find myself loved for the things that I do for people. It also seems (at least my here and now) that "sex" determines how much you love....does that make any sense?? me neither.
So, back to where I was going... I know it's out there, I just hope I experience it before I can't.
I may be able to speak the languages of peoples and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or clanging bell. I may have the gift of inspired preaching; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets; I may have all faith needed to move mountains, but if I have no love, I am nothing. I may give away everything I have, and even give up my body to be burned, but if I have no love this does me no good.
Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud; love is not ill mannered or selfish or proud or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs; love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth. Love never gives up; and its faith, hope and patience never fail.
Love is eternal. There are inspired messages, but they are temporary; there are gifts of speaking in strange tongues, but they will cease; there is knowledge, but it will pass. For our gifts of knowledge and of inspired messages are only partial; but when that what is perfect [love] comes, then what is partial will disappear.
When I was a child, my speech, feelings and thinking were those of a child; now that I am mature, I have no more use for childish ways. What we see now is like a dim image in a mirror; then we shall see face-to-face. What I know now is only partial; then it will be complete, as complete as the Lord's knowledge of me.
Meanwhile these three remain: faith, hope and love; and the greatest of these is love.
Love is giving of oneself...like giving of yourself to the Lord whether it be Krishna or otherwise...if you love me you'll keep my commandments...I love the Lord so much that I want to do everything that is advised and that he has asked of us, to best of my ability...Love abounds... 
Tammy
To live with love in our hearts.. to live from the heart to live with love.
We must love all and have gratitude for all life and living creatures, even for the nature around us, living with love brings us joy and inner peace.
Love is not just the love of another person It is a love for Life, God and a deep respect for every minute of life, to live with a love for each breath.
Love is unconditional and through the love of God we have the ability to love others.
We must first love God as only God loves us in a perfect sense. God teaches us how to love in a real way and through love of the divine spirit our hearts open to others.
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THE WAVE OF LOVE
To love someone is to accept all that they are with out conditions.love provides the safty and security of knowing we do not have to hide who we truly are inside and out.
Love is
the Trinity
Love Does Mean you have to say your sorry. No matter what the song lyric says.
http://www.mainstreetmom.com/marr/say_sorry.htm
Good Night
Hope everyone is well
When a group of professionals posed the question, "What does love mean?" to a group of children between the ages of 4 and 8, they got answers that were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See for yourself:
"Love is that first feeling you feel before all the bad stuff gets in the way."
"When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love."
"When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth."
"Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other."
"Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs."
"Love is when someone hurts you. And you get so mad but you don't yell at them because you know it would hurt their feelings."
"Love is what makes you smile when you're tired."
"Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him to make sure the taste is OK."
"Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss."
"Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen."
"If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate."
"Love is hugging. Love is kissing. Love is saying no."
"When you tell someone something bad about yourself and you're scared they won't love you anymore. But then you get surprised because not only do they still love you, they love you even more."
"There are two kinds of love: Our love and God's love. But God makes both kinds of them."
"Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday."
"Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well."
"During my piano recital, I was on a stage and scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling. He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore."
"My mommy loves me more than anybody. You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night."
"Love is when mommy gives daddy the best piece of chicken."
"Love is when mommy sees daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford."
"Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day."
"I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones."
"I let my big sister pick on me because my Mom says she only picks on me because she loves me. So I pick on my baby sister because I love her."
"Love cards like Valentine's cards say stuff on them that we'd like to say ourselves, but we wouldn't be caught dead saying."
"When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you."
"Love is when mommy sees daddy on the toilet and she doesn't think it's gross."
"You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget."
http://www.missico.com/personal/thoughts/what_does_love_mean.htm
Linda I am humbled by your essay.
I don't have parents to take care of, but my mom finally let me "in" just a bit before she died.
You are blest and you are a blessing.
Peace & blessings,
Marge
This writer went on to say they thought that this showed how the West was devaluing love. I expect that the truth lies closer to the way we tend to try to abbreviate everything as we try to understand more and more, only to discover that we needed the very words we were so quick to cast aside.
My thoughts are caught up in my experiences as usual. My parents are suffering a difficult time discovering that they are no longer as independent as they want to be. My father has waves of accepting help and refusing to allow anyone to help him. My mother suffers anxiety over the decline of his health and ignores her own.
I was thinking about how this relates so much to their love for each other. I am loving my parents by trying to do whatever is right for them. Sometimes that means helping them when they don't want to admit they need it. Sometimes that means letting them have the choice and the dignity of saying they want the help or showing that they don't need it.
It is a fine line to cross.
And while the feelings we associate with love are constant, the feelings we deal with as the people struggle mix with it and become a kind of gentle comfort. What I mean is that I can listen to them argue about whether they were on vacation thirty-five years ago after receiving a question about how they would like to handle supper and wait patiently or listen to them complain about each other and then hold them when they cry because there's nothing they can really do to solve the problems they are facing.
I think that if they didn't have the love they feel for each other that their situation would be intolerable. And if I didn't love them the way that I do, I would never drive the hundred and ninety miles to make sure they make it to doctor's appointments and take care of them any way I can.
To love means to find in yourself the surprising strength and decency to be someone's missing piece, their support, their window to happiness. When you are needy, they are there. When they are needy, you can help. And when both of you are strong and healthy and facing the world squarely, there's a joy and power of knowing you can pass the help to others. --Linda
Agape - this is a principled kind of love. You love someone because of YOUR principles.
Eros - this is erotic love
Stauros - this is family love
Philia - brotherly love, friendship
...and my mind stops there.
Over this past weekend I heard a wonderful definition of love... friendship in its fullest expression.
The Greek language has at least six, count 'em six, words for love... I'll see if I can dig up all six... each word is for a different expression of love...
Peace & blessings,
Marge
To Hear
To Touch
To Taste
To Feel
To Laugh
And to Love."
