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Love is a feeling of strong attraction and emotional attachment to a person, animal, or thing. It is expressed in many forms, encompassing a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, or the deepest interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. An example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother differs from the love of a spouse, which differs from the love of food.
Love is considered to be both positive and negative, with its virtue representing kindness, compassion, and affection—"the unselfish, loyal, and benevolent concern for the good of another"—and its vice representing a moral flaw akin to vanity, selfishness, amour-propre, and egotism. It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans, oneself, or animals. In its various forms, love acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships, and owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts. Love has been postulated to be a function that keeps human beings together against menaces and to facilitate the continuation of the species.
Ancient Greek philosophers identified six forms of love: familial love (storge), friendly love or platonic love (philia), romantic love (eros), self-love (philautia), guest love (xenia), and divine or unconditional love (agape). Modern authors have distinguished further varieties of love: fatuous love, unrequited love, empty love, companionate love, consummate love, infatuated love (limerence), amour de soi, and courtly love. Numerous cultures have also distinguished Ren, Yuanfen, Mamihlapinatapai, Cafuné, Kama, Bhakti, Mettā, Ishq, Chesed, Amore, charity, Saudade (and other variants or symbioses of these states), as culturally unique words, definitions, or expressions of love in regard to specified "moments" currently lacking in the English language.
The colour wheel theory of love defines three primary, three secondary, and nine tertiary love styles, describing them in terms of the traditional color wheel. The triangular theory of love suggests intimacy, passion, and commitment are core components of love. Love has additional religious or spiritual meaning. This diversity of uses and meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, compared to other emotional states.
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Embracing Shadows for Spiritual Growth Practice, Love, Evil |
Aug 04 2005 Tassajara |
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Embracing Emptiness in Everyday Life Love, Suzuki Roshi, Buddha |
Nov 13 2004 Unknown |
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Sunday Lecture Time, Love, Practice |
Feb 29 2004 Green Gulch |
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Workshop Work, Love, Time |
Jan 31 2004 Green Gulch |
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Workshop Work, Time, Love |
Jan 31 2004 Green Gulch |
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Sesshin Lecture Love, Practice, Consciousness |
Oct 26 2003 Tassajara |
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Vimalakirti SutraSerial: SF-04084 Sunday Lecture: Manjushri questioning Vimalakirti. How should one view all sentient beings - like the reflection of the moon in water, etc. Love. Wisdom of love. Love, Time, Manjushri |
Aug 10 2003 Green Gulch |
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Embrace Presence: Living Now with Compassion Time, Love, Compassion |
Dec 13 2002 City Center |
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Presence: The Essence of Zen Buddha, Time, Love |
Dec 02 2002 City Center |
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Transmission of the Light ClassSerial: SF-00918 Upagupta (Ubakikuta), leaving home Time, Love, Karmic Consciousness |
May 28 2002 Green Gulch |
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Zen and Poetry Class Time, Love, Name |
Mar 26 2002 Green Gulch |
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Zen and Poetry Class Time, Poetry, Love |
Mar 19 2002 Green Gulch |
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Zen and Poetry Class Poetry, Buddha, Love |
Mar 12 2002 Green Gulch |
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Presence Beyond Thought's Illusions Time, Love, Work |
Aug 04 2001 City Center |
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Sunday Lecture Buddha, Love, Time |
Mar 18 2001 Green Gulch |
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Embracing Change: Path to Liberation Suffering, Love, Letting Go |
Dec 09 2000 City Center |
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Buddhism at Millennium's Edge - Seminar 4Serial: SF-03055 Copyright 1998 by Peter Matthiessen - Unedited Preview Cassette Time, Love, Work |
1998 Unknown |
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Buddhism at Millennium's Edge - Poems 2Serial: SF-03506 Copyright 1998 by Gary Snyder - Unedited Preview Cassette - duplicate Time, Love, Work |
1998 Unknown |
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Buddhism at Millennium's Edge - Seminar 3Serial: SF-03054 Copyright 1998 by Peter Matthiessen - Unedited Preview Cassette Time, Work, Love |
1998 Unknown |
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Mountains And Rivers Without EndSerial: SF-03582 Mountains And Rivers Workshop, Mark Gonnerman, Stanford Humanities Center, Kresge Auditorium Time, Chanting, Love |
Oct 09 1997 Stanford University |
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Deep Relaxation - 5 Touchings of the EarthSerial: SF-04819 Commercially Produced cassette: Sounds True - - Pain, Love and Happiness with Thich Nhat Hanh - September 1-6 1997 Sponsored by the Community of Mindful Living Love, Peace, Practice |
Sep 01 1997 Unknown |
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Images of FireSerial: SF-01848 Commercially Produced cassette: Sounds True, PO Box 8010, Boulder CO 80306 Faith, Time, Love |
1992 Unknown |
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Shuso LectureSerial: SF-00949 #shuso-talk Practice, Love, Pain |
Mar 27 1991 Unknown |
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Sunday Lecture Practice, Time, Love |
Aug 20 1989 Green Gulch |
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Four Levels of TantraSerial: SF-01805 Cassette labeled: Robbie Socks Rebirth 9.21.98 Love, Time, Religion |
Apr 06 1988 SFZC |
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Poetry Reading Love, Time, Work |
Feb 01 1983 City Center |
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Mystical Worlds in Poetic Creation Time, Poetry, Love |
Apr 13 1980 SFZC |
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Browning's Quest for Timeless Connection Time, Love, Poetry |
Mar 23 1980 SFZC |
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Imagination's Tapestry: Browning's Legacy Poetry, Time, Love |
Mar 09 1980 SFZC |
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Browning's Sordello Time, Poetry, Love |
Feb 18 1980 SFZC |
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Browning's Sordello Poetry, Time, Love |
Feb 10 1980 SFZC |
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Sex, Spirit, and the SacredSerial: SF-03044 Commercially produced tape: MEA Box 303 Sausalito CA 94965 P. 1973 Love, Time, Religion |
1973 Unknown |
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Way of TeaSerial: SF-03017 8411-1 Love, Pain, Work |
1973 Unknown |
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The House of Belonging Time, Silence, Love |
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Radiant Transformation through Divine Service Love, Compassion, Time |
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Dharma Talk - ThursdaySerial: SF-04813 Commercially Produced cassette: Sounds True - - Pain, Love and Happiness with Thich Nhat Hanh - September 1-6 1997 Sponsored by the Community of Mindful Living Practice, Love, Time |
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Buddhism at Millennium's Edge - Seminar 3Serial: SF-03090 Copyright 1998 by Peter Matthiessen - Unedited Preview Cassette Time, Work, Love |
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Transformation of Consciousness Compassion, Love, Karma |
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Reflecting the MirrorSerial: SF-03045A #12 Time, Original Nature, Love |
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The Future of ReligionSerial: SF-03037B #1 Love, Priest, Ego |
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The Philosophy of NatureSerial: SF-03048B Man's Place in Nature Study, Love, Time |
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Ghosts Time, Wisdom, Love |
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Game Theory of EthicsSerial: SF-03034B #18 Love, Time, Faith |
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Do You Do It? Time, Love, Desire |
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What is Christianity?Serial: SF-03030B #15 Love, Evil, Religion |
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Where Many Rivers Meet Time, Name, Love |
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Full Moon Bodhisattva Ceremony - Suzuki Roshi MemorialSerial: SF-00004 Pat Phelan, Layla Bockhorst, Steve Weintraub, Robert Lytle, Tatsugami Roshi Love, Vow, Buddha |
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Indi & World Party Love, Work, Time |
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Self-AwakeningSerial: SF-03032 Watts #3 Solid Empty Time, Meditation, Love |
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Buddhism at Millennium's Edge - Poems 2Serial: SF-03510 Copyright 1998 by Gary Snyder - Unedited Preview Cassette Time, Love, Work |
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