An ancient view of love

Love. How can Four Letters involve such a complex and confusing meaning? (:

 

First I will answer: What does a loving and functional relationship look like? (It's short)
Functional is making do
Love is not
Functional is dealing with
Love is not
To have a functional relationship means you try
Love does need nurturing but does not come from trying
When you try to love something or someone, it cannot be true
Love does not come from trying
If that were the case, everyone would have it
Love comes from within, and seeps out, without trying, sometimes without knowing.

Then I will answer: What is love? (A little longer)
Love is beauty.
Love is radiant.
It shines from within
What is within?
Your every thought
Your every wish
Your every hope
Your every dream
Love gives you power. 
It can give you power over someone, or make you powerless.
It can cause pain, but can lift you out of the darkest moments. 
Light and Love reflect upon us all.
Love is trust.
Love can be between a family, a couple, or a stranger.
Love means you can’t do it alone.
Surrender to others
Surrender to yourself
You don’t choose who you fall in love with
Forced love is not true
A fantasy brought into reality that can be destroyed is not true
Maybe in a moment, love can be, but love is also holding out, waiting
Love is patience
Love is uncontrollable.
You can feel love
You can receive love
Most important: You can give love
Love cannot be described in words
Writers, Poets, seek to find the true meaning, the complete definition of love, but have failed 
Love no words, can be seen?
Love is the closest thing we have to magic.
There are ultimate loves.
Soul mates, Forevermore
Destiny can be love, but not to be decided by someone other then Him
He chooses, we believe we choose
Do we?
Love can be seen through embraces
So in that sense
Love can be felt in a gift or received
Love is an emotion
Still never controlled
Love can be weakness and strength
Love is the beginning of everything
Love can sometimes be the end
You can observe love
When you see a father hold his newborn
Or
Two sisters dancing in the rain
In that love it is “natural” and expected
Whereas with a stranger 
Love flows naturally always, but is not expected
Respect is expected
Dignity is expected
Love is not
Love can come through respect and dignity
Relation by blood allows a deep love within
Relation with skin, is surface, and the most common
Relation with soul, spirit, and heart, is rare, it is the deepest and most sought after 
Love can be within
Love can be with another
Love cannot be without
A love where you would let go for the other’s safety, or for another’s choice
Love is accepting that time is inevitable.
Within time comes change.
Change creates love as well.
Love is following someone to the edge of the universe.
Knowing you will never let go.
And through change you will grow by falling more in love.
Why is love described as “falling into”
Does it happen out of thin air
Believing and Dreaming creates Love
Hopes and Wishes tend to it
As it can be seen, felt, and heard
Love is the root of everything
Any existence, person, place, or thing, is Love.
God made us each with love
Humans make others with love
Even in that it’s not always true
Sex is often mistaken for love
Body on Body is surface
Surface is not deep or true
It’s simply infatuation
Love can be an act, but is different from “making love”
Love comes from passion that is true. 
Passion comes from happiness
Happiness with another, or with thyself is a creator of love
Love is an indulgement
Could it be possible that one can go through a lifetime and never really know love? 
Sad as it may seem, I believe it to be.
The rarest and deepest love is not seen, is not felt, it is simply there in every action, every word, but is the root not the surface.
Love can be sparks, but believing in that only can lead to be mistaken for love and infatuation.
In that, I am still confused. 
Love is not looking into each other’s eyes, but looking out unto the world, unto what makes them happy.
Laughter comes from love. Joy comes from love.
Memories come from love.
Love creates everything.
Love can be found in a moment
Built in a day
Nurtured in a week
True in a month
Forever in a year
But lost in an instant
Why is something that is everything lost so easily?
Love can exist with one person loving another who does love them in return
But that kind of love does not last
Because love needs to be nurtured by two people, unless it’s a “within” love
“Falling in love” is like rain
It hits you when you least expect it, but can be gone as soon as the sun comes out if not held onto
Love can be held onto within a distance, within years of time
Love can never be forgotten
Love will always make you wonder
If you had it, If you have it, Or If you ever will.
Love is paint on a canvas
It is art from the moment the paintbrush touches the white
Even if the paint color is white on white
Love can be invisible
It can make you blind
Love can also awaken you.
Love is a final dance that never ends, making it a beginning of something new.

So. that is what I believe Love is. But i still believe even though I gave this a lot of thought, I think it is still surface level. How can you ever truly define Love. Love is something so beautiful and rare. This is not truly all my thoughts. I would not be able to guess how much I would have to write to truly get the whole meaning of even what i or even all of what i believe. I just know that I believe in Love, however far away or near it may be. I know someday I will have the utmost Love in my life. Whether it be a romance with a man or a love that allows me to find it within to love myself as a whole instead of pieces. 
Forever and Always.

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[Sami Khalil]

I know someday I will have the utmost Love in my life. Whether it be a romance with a man or a love that allows me to find it within to love myself as a whole instead of pieces. 
Forever and Always.

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