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The other four qualities in the arsenal are truth (sat), contentment (santokh), compassion (daya), and humility (nimrata). These five qualities are essential for a Sikh and it is their duty to meditate on and recite the Gurbani so that these virtues become a part of their mindset. Love is a positive and powerful tool in the Sikh's arsenal of ...
Sternberg believed love to progress and evolve in predictable ways—that all couples in love will experience intimate, passionate, and committed love in the same patterns. [10] Although these types of love may contain qualities that exist in non-loving relationships, they are specific to loving relationships.
The Four Loves is a 1960 book by C. S. Lewis which explores the nature of love from a Christian and philosophical perspective through thought experiments. [1] The book was based on a set of radio talks from 1958 which had been criticised in the U.S. at the time for their frankness about sex.
The roots of the classical philosophy of love go back to Plato's Symposium. [3] Plato's Symposium digs deeper into the idea of love and bringing different interpretations and points of view in order to define love. [4] Plato singles out three main threads of love that have continued to influence the philosophies of love that followed.
Through practicing love, and thus producing love, the individual overcomes the dependence on being loved, having to be "good" to deserve love. He contrasts the immature phrases "I love because I am loved" and "I love you because I need you" with mature expressions of love, "I am loved because I love", and "I need you because I love you." [33]
Admiration – one marvels at the qualities of the loved one. Acknowledgement – one acknowledges the pleasantness of having gained the loved one's interest. Hope – one envisions gaining the love of the loved one. Delight – one delights in overrating the beauty and merit of the person whose love one hopes to win.
Starting the ’70s, with divorce on the rise, social psychologists got into the mix. Recognizing the apparently opaque character of marital happiness but optimistic about science’s capacity to investigate it, they pioneered a huge array of inventive techniques to study what things seemed to make marriages succeed or fail.
Romance or romantic love is a feeling of love for, or a strong attraction towards another person, [1] and the courtship behaviors undertaken by an individual to express those overall feelings and resultant emotions.