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...We should be feeling it toward every living thing...

Love has so many meanings in so many different languages.   It is a noun, an adjective, a verb, it's even an emotion - it is almost impossible to comprehend its meaning completely because it can be used and applied in so many ways.  You could even say, love is everything...

While all of this is nothing short of amazing the most basic understanding we have of what Love is to our culture is misunderstood and often neglected and ignored.  Because of it's simplicity - its grandeur is often oblivious to most people.

Love is the one condition that brings us together.   It is the one answer to every problem we face in life yet we completely overlook it.  We have cheapened it to the point where we think it only applies to physical acts and the feeling we have toward a significant other or family member.  Yet every religion dares to tell us that it is so very much more.   

We have to open out hearts to one another, we have to see through the imaginary walls and boundaries our society had created.   We have to see beyond it and allow ourselves to feel love in it's most basic form.  We have to understand it's not limited to male or female, straight or gay, old or young, black or white, short or tall, fat or skinny, punk rocker or classic pianist.   Love can not be limited to or by any of these things.  It applies to the very core of our spiritual beings.  

Love is that feeling you get when you lock eyes with someone and it feels like time stands still.  It is the feeling when you hold a new born child in your arms or a baby kitten or puppy - it is that moment that we realize how precious life is; and the rest of the world seems unimportant at that one moment in time - when the past and future aren't even a concern.  When we  awaken to that very moment and nothing else matters...  It is when the mental chatter stops and the warmth comes over you.  It is love's power that can stop time and freeze space that we fail to really comprehend and pass it off as a fleeting moment.   When it fact it is the answer to every problem we have ever had to face, now or in the future.   It is a gift that we simply choose too often to ignore.

I encourage you to stop and embrace it.  Stop creating imaginary walls and limitations on who you can feel love for and who you can show your love to.   Open your heart and let love be.  

Fill your heart with love for your fellow human being and watch all your disagreements and judgement fade away.  This is what the world religions have attempted to teach us.  Even if you happen to be atheist - you know love is extremely powerful, when we stop holding it back.  This is what our better nature tries to tell us.  We just refuse to listen to what is natural to all of us.  What we knew as children and see when we look at a young child as they make eye contact with us.  We see that pure love and innocence that we have managed to loose as we grew older and our hearts have seeming grown colder.  We have essentially forgotten how to love others and in the process many have stopped loving themselves.  

We must take time each day to see that innocence and love in others - even in those we dislike or disagree with.   Allow our hearts to feel it and embrace it's natural existence in every living thing.  Love is everywhere, we just have to choose to open our hearts to it, embrace it and accept it.   Stop fearing what it might mean to drop our guard, open our hearts and feel the innocence that is and has always been there.   We must stop worrying what other might think and start being authentic and real with each other.   It is time to take off the masks and allow our compassion flow freely to everyone - especially those we feel do not deserve it.


We need to fill our hearts with love and with every breath we take, every word we speak, every gesture we make - we need to do it with authentic, genuine, unconditional and absolute love.  

We can change the world by changing our attitudes and by giving the priceless gift of love to each other and to every living thing on the planet we come in contact with.   It doesn't cost a penny and the return on the investment is as priceless as the gift of giving it.

Open your heart and it will open your mind and free your soul.   We can erase hate, distrust, anger and greed by focusing our efforts within ourselves and changing our perspective and what we simply feel toward and about others.   

Love is a Divine gift that we should never resist.  It should be embraced and honored.

"I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.”
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832



When we learn to let go and let love be - we find it is intoxicating and magnificent!

My favorite meaning of the word comes from the Ancient Greek
The meaning helps us understand the many shades and colors of what love truly is...  
It uncovers how the English translation has overly simplified the meaning loosing far too much in its translation.
LOVE ... It is a small word with an infinite meaning.



This is how to make/keep an INFJ very happy:

Ancient Greek

 distinguishes several different senses in which the word "love" is used. For example, Ancient Greek has the words philia, eros, agape, storge, and xenia. However, with Greek (as with many other languages), it has been historically difficult to separate the meanings of these words totally. At the same time, the Ancient Greek text of the Bible has examples of the verb agapo having the same meaning as phileo.

 (ἀγάπη agápē) means love in modern-day Greek. The term s'agapo means I love you in Greek. The wordagapo is the verb I love. It generally refers to a "pure," ideal type of love, rather than the physical attraction suggested by eros. However, there are some examples of agape used to mean the same as eros. It has also been translated as "love of the soul."
 (ἔρως érōs) (from the Greek deity Eros) is passionate love, with sensual desire and longing. The Greek word erota means in love. Plato refined his own definition. Although eros is initially felt for a person, with contemplation it becomes an appreciation of the beauty within that person, or even becomes appreciation of beauty itself. Eros helps the soul recall knowledge of beauty and contributes to an understanding of spiritual truth. Lovers and philosophers are all inspired to seek truth by eros. Some translations list it as "love of the body."
 (φιλία philía), a dispassionate virtuous love, was a concept developed by Aristotle. It includes loyalty to friends, family, and community, and requires virtue, equality, and familiarity. Philia is motivated by practical reasons; one or both of the parties benefit from the relationship. It can also mean "love of the mind."
 (στοργή storgē) is natural affection, like that felt by parents for offspring.
 (ξενία xenía), hospitality, was an extremely important practice in Ancient Greece. It was an almost ritualized friendship formed between a host and his guest, who could previously have been strangers. The host fed and provided quarters for the guest, who was expected to repay only with gratitude. The importance of this can be seen throughout Greek mythology—in particular, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

5th CASTLE Principle - "LOVE"

"...All human communications are transmitted and received on a continuum ranging between negative and positive, between fear and love. Our brains release different biochemicals depending on whether we are experiencing pain and fear or love and inspiration. When we experience pain and fear, the brain puts the body into "stress mode", triggering the release of stress hormones by the limbic system. When we experience love and inspiration, the brain releases the body's natural "uppers" that lower blood pressure, heart-rate and oxygen consumption. Since the soul and the body are one, our experiences of love or fear directly influence us to the core of our being - emotional, spiritually and, as we can see, physically. Violence and love are at opposite ends of a continuum, with selfishness at one end and service at the other. One builds. The other destroys.

Love is when my heart touches your heart and adds to who you are as a person. We know that we all yearn for more love in our lives. ..."

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Excerpts credited to Wikipedia

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