Defining Love

By Rod Charles

Recently I was thinking of a way to define love. I will use a visual illustration to look at love. There are many different inaccurate uses of the word love as it applies to the material world. From the "heartfelt love", I see that there are two ways to define love. (One) To fill a void in our lonely lives, we find a kind of love that I refer to as a "superficial" love. To illustrate this I will use a glass of water. Once the water is consumed the glass is empty as is life and the lonely heart returns to find another glass of water. That is why the divorce rate in the world is so high. This kind of love is very definable as you can see. (Two) Again, I will use the same glass of water to illustrate this second kind of love. The glass is full of water as before; however, when the water is consumed the glass is still full. It does not matter how much water is consumed the glass remains full, there is no way to explain or define the reason why this phenomenon exists. It is a kind of meaningful everlasting love. You can live this love through the deep feelings from an unknown source within our hearts and our inner beauty. (Inner beauty is defined as living life from the heart). These deep feelings of love remain undefinable. We feel this love, but we will never know why and we really do not need to know why. This love is just there and all the relationships last until death do us part. For centuries, philosophers, sages and countless other individuals have tried to define these inner unknowing feelings of love. All efforts have failed and will continue to fail for as long as time exists. These words I have written here, I hope will inspire the readers to look at life a little differently.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 29, 2020
• ISBN: 9781796091625

Rod Charles

Mr. Charles worked for the federal government for 32 years. He retired and worked several part-time jobs including the Assistant Manager of a book store. He became interested in writing. He had a lot to say about what was on his mind and in his heart. And he wanted to express these feelings in writing and poetry seemed to be the right venue to use to accomplish this task. At first, he wrote only for his own enjoyment. When another poet read some of his work, he was told he should share his talent with you, the reader. So this book is dedicated to you, the reader, to enjoy reading the poetry as much as he enjoyed writing the poetry. God bless everyone who enjoys reading, the best way to obtaining knowledge.

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Rev. date: 03/19/2020

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Contents

Prologue

I Am Who I Am

A Scenario of a Marriage

This year

Trust

Self

The Origin of Our Love

Love from a small seed

Long Distance Love

Dreams of love

The Past is the Past

Love Our Only Asset

Today

The Miracle of Love

The Gift of Love

Each day is a New year

When love hurts

Decisions

Crossroads

A Proposal

Finding the words

Love is

Prologue

Recently I was thinking of a way to define love. I will use a visual illustration to look at love. There are many different inaccurate uses of the word love as it applies to the material world. From the heartfelt love, I see that there are two ways to define love. (One) To fill a void in our lonely lives, we find a kind of love that I refer to as a superficial love. To illustrate this I will use a glass of water. Once the water is consumed the glass is empty as is life and the lonely heart returns to find another glass of water. That is why the divorce rate in the world is so high. This kind of love is very definable as you can see. (Two) Again, I will use the same glass of water to illustrate this second kind of love. The glass is full of water as before; however, when the water is consumed the glass is still full. It does not matter how much water is consumed the glass remains full, there is no way to explain or define the reason why this phenomenon exists. It is a kind of meaningful everlasting love. You can live this love through the deep feelings from an unknown source within our hearts and our inner beauty. (Inner beauty is defined as living life from the heart). These deep feelings of love remain undefinable. We feel this love, but we will never know why and we really do not need to know why. This love is just there and all the relationships last until death do us part. For centuries, philosophers, sages and countless other individuals have tried to define these inner unknowing feelings of love. All efforts have failed and will continue to fail for as long as time exists. These words I have written here, I hope will inspire the readers to look at life a little differently. God bless each one of you.

Writer and author, Rod Charles

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