True Love or Friendship?

[lelouch. 625]

Id say true love is close friendship in itself. Like... really close friendship

[Old Fluttershy 349]

 

weren't ya'll paying attention to the end of Frozen?

Frozen was an overhyped movie.

I'm sorry but I just have to say it.

[They call me Loyalty 1,957]

True love would be unconditional love, Am I right? It's something that most human beings reach once they've left their egocentric needs behind. It isn't based upon fear towards loneliness or pain. It isn't to subtract from someone else, but to add and complete someone else. Once you get to higher levels of consciousness, you start to realize you're part of everything, and how the creation works. You feel that you don't need anything to be happy, but still you love everyone and everything equally, the same way you love yourself.

To put it bluntly, you value good and evil on the same level. Because you understand absolutely everything. There isn't place for ignorance, just full comprehension, and thus there isn't fear, which means there isn't personal and emotional needs. Sometimes you will play the devil, sometimes you will play the god.

Do you realize that everything you consider to be your own personality and yourself, is just a temporal construction, product of your own environment? Have you been born somewhere else, you would have ended up being a completely different person. Thus, love in service of personality, apareance, tastes, or any other circunstancial condition, isn't considered true love, since as this other traits mentioned before, it isn't infinite. It's, non the less, a form of love which can be a beautiful experience.

But, when you start to value life, despite it's conditions. When you realize that you're part of everyone, everything and everywhere, then you reach true love. It's more intense and passionate that you would realize, it isn't to substract from the human notion of love, making love included, but to add to the whole experience.
It's and interaction between Alpha and Omega beings of creational proportions.

It comes naturally as the global consciousness, as a whole, starts to wake up, just enjoy your experience the way you're now. If you have any doubt about yourself, just ask yourself sincerely, you have all the answers you need.

[Falsey 44]

I think they both have just as much importance. They have both saved Equestria at least once, and that's what's important!

[Darker 1,352]

Neither are powerful. There is only one force that can go against any other, and that's death.

Edited September 5, 2014 by Darker

[Mlpfan185 1,763]

Something was here. Something was here. Something was here. 

Edited October 10, 2018 by NONAME

[Fawkes The Phoenix 737]

Love is more important, why?, because true friendship is a kind of love.

 

 

Neither are powerful. There is only one force that can go against any other, and that's death.

 

Death is the strongest force of the human existence, but both friendship and true love are powerful forces too

[Guest]

True love & friendships? Those things actually exists these days? Show me because I haven't seen it in a long time. Maybe a few small good friendships though at that.

[Cwanky 17,789]

Well let's see what the dictionary has to say:

friendship

 

[frend-ship]

noun

1.

the state of being a friend; association as friends :

to value a person's friendship.

2.

a friendly relation or intimacy.

3.

friendly feeling or disposition.

 

love

 

[luhv]

noun

1.

a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.

2.

a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend.

 

As you can see, love is just an emotional feeling 1 has for another.  In the case of romantic love as with Shining Armor and Cadence it tends to take on more elements of passion, affection. Love is not necessarily separate from friendship, and people seem to seriously misunderstand that. Some of the best friendships have love just as great if not greater than many passionate romantic loves. It depends on the relationship and people involved.

 

For a deeper understanding of love, here are the 4 classical Greek types of love:

 

• Agápe (ἀγάπη agápē^[1]) means love in a "spiritual" sense. In the term s'agapo (Σ'αγαπώ), which means "I love you" in Ancient Greek, it often refers to a general affection or deeper sense of "true unconditional love" rather than the attraction suggested by "eros." This love is selfless; it gives and expects nothing in return. Agape is used in the biblical passage known as the "love chapter," 1 Corinthians 13, and is described there and throughout the New Testament as brotherly love, affection, good will, love, and benevolence^[2]. Whether the love given is returned or not, the person continues to love (even without any self-benefit). Agape is also used in ancient texts to denote feelings for one's children and the feelings for a spouse, and it was also used to refer to a love feast^[3]. It can also be described as the feeling of being content or holding one in high regard. Agape is used by Christians to express the unconditional love of God for his children. This type of love was further explained by Thomas Aquinas as "to will the good of another."^[4]
• Éros (ἔρως érōs^[5]) is "physical" passionate love, with sensual desire and longing. Romantic, pure emotion without the balance of logic. "Love at first sight". The Modern Greek word "erotas" means "intimate love." It can also apply to dating relationships as well as marriage. Plato refined his own definition: Although eros is initially felt for a person, with contemplation it becomes an appreciation of the beauty within that person, or even becomes appreciation of beauty itself. Plato does not talk of physical attraction as a necessary part of love, hence the use of the word platonic to mean, "without physical attraction." In the Symposium, the most famous ancient work on the subject, Plato has Socrates argue that eros helps the soul recall knowledge of beauty, and contributes to an understanding of spiritual truth, the ideal "Form" of youthful beauty that leads us humans to feel erotic desire – thus suggesting that even that sensually based love aspires to the non-corporeal, spiritual plane of existence; that is, finding its truth, just like finding any truth, leads to transcendence^[6]. Lovers and philosophers are all inspired to seek truth through the means of eros.
• Philia (φιλία philía^[7]) is "mental" love. It means affectionate regard or friendship in both ancient and modern Greek. This type of love has give and take. It is a dispassionate virtuous love, a concept developed by Aristotle^[8]. In his best-known work on ethics, Nicomachean Ethics, philia is expressed variously as loyalty to friends, family, and community, and requires virtue, equality, and familiarity. Furthermore, in the same text philos denotes a general type of love, used for love between family, between friends, a desire or enjoyment of an activity, as well as between lovers.
• Storge (στοργή storgē^[9]) means "affection" in ancient and modern Greek. It is natural affection, like that felt by parents for offspring^[10]. Rarely used in ancient works, and then almost exclusively as a descriptor of relationships within the family. It is also known to express mere acceptance or putting up with situations, as in "loving" the tyrant.