Love is the capacity to put yourself in the shoes of the other person. Sex has little to do with it. Psychological researches have shown that lust is associated with motivation / reward areas of the brain, while love activates the regions connected to caring and empathy. Source: Here Those who care for others more than for themselves as Mother Teresa did, for example, are the ideal ‘lovers’. She cared for the persons who had no one to rely on when they needed help the most. She cleaned the filthiest of human bodies and applied the balm of tenderness on their festering wounds and lesions. Hers was a sincere interest in people as people. Not as vote banks. Not even as potential converts, as alleged by some, though her love did convert a lot of people into better human beings. Genuine love is transformative. Genuine love changes people. Into better human beings. Not many are capable of such love, however. But there are a lot of social activists who have give
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