Three Love Essentials

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.   -Friedrich Nietzsche

If the holiday season is the time to pursue happiness, then February could be the month of pondering the love; if happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length; then, does love lack of its wisdom since it’s full of madness? If happiness can not be measured in smiles, should love be tested by hugs or kisses; if a high level of happiness is as high as the mountain, deep as the sea, can the impact of love calm the turbulent sea and transform snow mountains into bloom hills with the sunshine?

From Wikipedia, “Love is an emotion of strong affection and personal attachment. Love is also a virtue representing all of the human kindness, compassion, and affection; "the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another". Three Levels of Happiness, explored the height of happiness, here we discover the three love essentials.

1. Platonic Love –The Joy of the Goodness

The best proof of love is trust. Joyce Brothers

The elements of love may include support, trust, truth, and even sacrifice; the madness of love may be more about the “blindness, brainlessness or colorlessness”—it might be short-lived, the depth of love needs to be more about understanding, respect, wisdom, fairness, equality, and fulfilling, love like seed, needs to grow, needs to be tested by the storms, the difficulties, and the adversities.

The Platonic love - the recruiting managers appreciate the raw intelligence of high potential talents, the teacher loves her students, the gardener loves his plants and flowers, or the coach loves her athletes, it’s about nurturing, the growth, the motivation, and the inspiration.

2. Universal Love –Humanity

"In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth."    -Abraham Lincoln

Feb.12th, two days ago, it’s 203rd birthday of Abraham Lincoln-one of the greatest presidents in history, what did he teach us about the love? Abraham Lincoln was more than a great president. He was a transcendent human being, an emancipator, he executed the power for the goodness, to maximize love via the broader vision of compassion, the wonder of wise and innate human goodness, his universal love well reflected the essence of love, the humanity. Here are three quotes from Lincoln:

• Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. Abraham Lincoln

           Character makes who we are, and character is the spiritual energy to kindle humanity:

• He has a right to criticize, who has the heart to help. Abraham Lincoln

          Love like medicine could be bitter but cure the illness.

• If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.         Abraham Lincoln

          Love is to embrace the diversity and to appreciate the difference

3. Religious Love –The amazement of God

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts always hopes, and always perseveres."         (1 Cor. 13:4–7, NIV)

If love between humans is still conditional love, then religious love is unconditional.

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