Love without motive ,

[china]

Can there be love without any incentive, without wanting something for oneself out of love? Can there be love in which there is no sense of being wounded when love is not returned? If I offer you my friendship and you turn away, am I not hurt? Is that feeling of being hurt the outcome of friendship, of generosity, of sympathy? Surely, as long as I feel hurt, as long as there is fear, as long as I help you hoping that you may help me—which is called service— there is no love. If you understand this, the answer is there.

 

[Niflmir]

I always had a particular view on unconditional love. Which I think is what you are trying to talk about here.

It seemed to me, that a person can change. In fact, through various events, a person's personality could change into just about anybody else's personality on Earth. But to love somebody without condition, or incentive, would be to love them through this change; in the first case because it would otherwise be conditional on the personality not changing and in the second change you would otherwise clearly have an incentive in the original personality.

But this ironically means you would have to be willing to love every single personality on Earth. It means that someone it is not the persons personality that you love. What then would love mean?

If there is love despite anything and without anything, then what is love? It is surely not a fancy name for nothing.

 

[AnnaG]

Yes, there are people in the world that are altruists. That means people that can be loving without expecting it in return.

Self Tests by Psychology Today

N., I think it is simply a love for life; other's as well as your own.

(I think I scored in low 80s)

 

[TenPenny]

Love Minus Zero/No Limit

 

[AnnaG]

Love Minus Zero/No Limit

lmao That's awesome! (I'd give you a thumbs up but I am too lazy to look through the smilie list. ) Could also go Love ÷ 0.

 

[china]

Niflmir

But to love somebody without condition,

..........................It is not to be aware of it (loving).

If there is love despite anything and without anything, then what is love? It is surely not a fancy name for nothing.

Love is not the product of thought which is the past. Thought cannot possibly cultivate love. Love is not hedged about and caught in jealousy, for jealousy is of the past. Love is always active present. It is not `I will love' or `I have loved'. If you know love you will not follow anybody. Love does not obey. When you love there is neither respect nor disrespect. Don't you know what it means really to love somebody - to love without hate, without jealousy, without anger, without wanting to interfere with what he is doing or thinking, without condemning, without comparing - don't you know what it means? Where there is love is there comparison? When you love someone with all your heart, with all your mind, with all your body, with your entire being, is there comparison? When you totally abandon yourself to that love there is not the other