Link between love and peace
Love is one of the strongest feelings, and when experienced by the recipient (baby, child, adult), it generates a sense of peace and security, even exhilaration.
Ask a very young child for just one word to define peace – and they might say love. Similarly, if we could feel more love for each other, there would certainly be more peace and less war.
Understanding love beyond its simple definition enables us to understand why love is associated with peace, in expressions and slogans such as Love and peace and Make love, not war.
You want peace: create love,Victor Hugo
1. Love for a particular person:
Feeling of deep affection, feeling of attachment, feeling of desire.
Source: CNRTL (synthesis): Love for the beloved.
2. Love for neighbor
Sentiment expressed by respect, regard, openness, acceptance, consideration, appreciation, benevolence, empathy, reliance,…
Love for those we work with: our children, our family, our students, our peers, and between people who act together, who share the same ideals,...
See the definitions of respect: which could be expressed as the minimum of love for the other , i.e. the minimum of consideration for the other.
3. Love of nature, love of life
A feeling of appreciation, regard and connection, felt for all that lives and enables life.
Love for budding plants, trees, mountains, bees, squirrels, and all that quivers with life.
4. Love for humanity
A strong sense of connection to all human beings, over and above our diverse differences.
Love between human beings.
See the definition of global citizenship.