What IS Love?

What’s love? The greatest question that almost none of the greatest minds could explain. You need the greatest, kindest, warmest heart to answer that, not the greatest mind. So far, only The Creator and His Son are like that. It is the most complicated among the human emotions. It is so complicated that it is oh-so-simple. With its raw simplicity that makes it so incomprehensible for us. Why? Have you loved BECAUSE. . . . . etc. Men! That ain’t love! That’s crap. Love has no reason, you don’t love because ! You just love her (or him for ladies). Done. Shut up! Period. It almost blurs science with its extra emotions (people kill or die for love, avenge for love, etc.). With that thought in mind, one has asked: “Why?”. Why create love when it is the main cause of evil and mischief? Why create love when it is the cause of most suicidal attempts? Why do we love without expecting anything in return? Why love? To some it is only a waste of time. How wrong they were.

The cause if evil and mischief sometimes is love. Robbers, kidnappers, thief, rapists, murderers-for-hire, etc. Their cause for committing such gruesome action is love most of the time. Simple joys: to feed their family, to have a wonderful meal at Jollibee, to spend Christmas with food on their table, to maintain a life slowly disappearing beneath their eyes. The most part of such is not their fault, but a part is theirs. The most part is because no one ever wants to be financially crippled and it is not their fault that they were born poor. To some paranormal believers, it is because they have been a massive money-spender spending dough on crap therefore punished to be financially challenged to know the value of money. Reincarnation is already proven (You don’t know? That’s what you get when you don’t watch Discovery Channel. A boy was reincarnated as his mother’s father who was gruesomely killed in a radio store by gunmen with proofs that only the mag-ama knew. A teenager was reincarnated when she drowned and has highly specific and detailed sketches with words her childhood and how she drowned, she found the parents of her “previous-her” exactly as she described them with names) and is something hidden by the most of the scientific community since it will oppose all scientific theories and thoughts about spirituality and the physical world. Back to love! Part of it is theirs because of their lack of physiological and spiritual strength to cope with these abysmal situations. Sometimes it is also the cause of how they were brought up that means really poorly brought up. A child is reflective and has a more innocent view of the world and has more good judgment than adults. They see their parents stealing for love thereby idolizing him and thinking it as the ONLY way for survival. Sometimes it is the result of influences of other people to kill for love and sadly humans are more vulnerable to stupid ideas when they are really down. These are things that some of us have no control over, but we can minimize them with the honest ways of a good man. Agendas that only a God-fearing, altruistic man could think of.

Suicide, love is often the cause of this. To die for passion extinguished. This passage from Khalil Gibran’s “The Prophet”:
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify
you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for
your pruning.
Even as he ascends to your height and caresses
your tenderest braches that quiver in the sun,
So shall he descend to your roots and shake them
in their clinging to the earth.
Like sheaves of corn h gathers you unto himself.
He threshes you to make you naked.
He sifts you to free you from your husks.
He grinds you to whiteness.
He kneads you until you are pliant;
And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that
you may become sacred bread for God’s sacred feast

Love has no desire but to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires,
let these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings
its melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of
Love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give
thanks for another day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love’s
ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And to sleep with a prayer for the beloved
in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

Simple! Why love without expecting anything? That in itself is the definition of love, loving without expecting love in return. The burning passion that ruins the weak. The burning love that causes death. The greatest ecstasy ever. The subliminal is found.

How wrong people are to believe that this emotion is only a waste of time. It is ignoring Nirvana.