The Concept of Love

By Larry Elkins

The Concept of Love is a way of protecting yourself as you try your hand at love. Love is the greatest feeling in life, so why is there so much pain and suffering attached to it?

All my life, I have seen many attempts at love, including my own. Ive learned the root cause of whats going wrong with love.

The half-heart concept allows us to keep in mind the conceptual view of love, from where love begins to the creation of eternal love. It also teaches us how to avoid and be aware of what love is not, which is the cause of all our suffering in love.

The half-heart shape is you. It represents the love you have for yourself, which is where love begins, and it should look like you.

Once you love yourself for everything you are and begin to look for your talents, skills, and who you truly are, then youll become the half-heart imageone that is unique to only you. As you live your life seeing how important you are in it, there will come a time when you will be interested in the possibility of loving outwardly. You will then use the three stages of love in their conceptual comprehension to guide you safely through love. It will be the half hearts who will change the course of love and, in essence, begin to change the world as a whole.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 7, 2017
• ISBN: 9781524572310

Larry Elkins

The author’s name is Larry Elkins. He was born in Aurora, Colorado, in Fitzsimmons Army Hospital in October of 1971. His parents, Charles David and Angie Pauline Elkins, were one of a kind. They showed him what true love really was, every day of the short time he had with them. When he was thirteen years old, his mom passed away from a long, hard-fought-out battle with cancer. Three months later, his dad died of a broken heart from his mom dying. The love, honor, and respect he had learned from them set the tone for his life’s journey. He became the luckiest father in the world when his two amazing children, ToneRay and Breanna, were born. He began fixing furniture for a company that sold furniture. A few years later, he created his own repair business. Later on in his life, he joined an Internet business. In 2015, he moved to California with Rosalva Segovia to recreate himself, now that his children are older and enjoying their lives and starting their families. He is currently a sales manager / motivational speaker for a marketing company and a public speaker / debate instructor.

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Copyright © 2017 by Larry Elkins.

Illustrated by Larry Elkins

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Rev. date: 02/06/2017

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1   Love Yourself

Chapter 2   Perspective

Chapter 3   Attraction

Chapter 4   Acceptance

Chapter 5   Compromise Morals and Expectations

Glossary

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The love for yourself manifests itself into the symbolic representation of love, the half heart.

And this half heart reveals the concept of love.

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Introduction

Hi, my name is Larry Elkins. I’ve created a way to see love conceptually. I use the half heart images to convey and explain the concept of love.

It begins by creating your unique half heart by loving yourself for who you are and for what lies in front of you.

Your half heart resembles you because it is you. By loving yourself, your life will be directed by your heart. Without loving yourself, your life will be driven by your ego.

In this half heart concept, the shape of the half heart reveals the three main stages of love, as seen in the first 2 drawings.

I’m a father of two amazing children, who are now amazing young adults, ToneRay and Breanna. I would have talks with them, trying to teach them the concept of life as I knew it back then. I’d have them, one at a time, go in my office, which was really the bathroom. I would sit on the toilet, and whichever one was in there for a talk would sit on the edge of the tub, and I would give them an earful. I tried to teach them all the rules of life so they can easily guide themselves through it.

I taught them what my job and responsibilities are as their dad. I told them how much I loved them and how I want to protect them until they can do it themselves and how I will always be there for them for the rest of my life. I would say that it is only up to me and their mom to teach them if they do or say anything wrong or bad. I would tell them that it can seem that I always yell at them and tell them to do things, but it is me, their dad, doing it out of love for them that I am trying to teach them how not to get in