What is AGAPE Love and How does one obtain it?

AGAPE (Selfless love) doesn't seek anything for itself and therefore it is the only type of LOVE that can be considered divine.
How does one obtain this love?

For Christian agape? Prayer. Niasain 16:50, 15 March 2006

For Christian agape? Well, prayer is a way of 'reciprocating' (that sounds terrible, I know) agape, but it is given to all, not just Christians, freely. It doesn't depend on us, besides that, we should accept this love.
To obtain Agape? [AGAPE - freely giving, unconditional, un-self-centered love]

You cannot OBTAIN this love by yourself, since this love can only be given. For this love is always moving and is only Agape if it is being freely passed to another person. BUT to experience this love, here are a few suggestions...

1. Desire to Love (Agape) in this way.
2. Work on not being Egocentric
3. Start looking out for what's in the best interest of friends & enemies alike. Placing their needs above your own. Giving value to others' lives even above your own life. What is so amazing about this type of love is that as you are loving an enemy this way, they can (not always, especially at first) become your friend. In his Book "A Good Heart" when his Holiness the Buddhist Dalai Lama was presented with this concept of loving your enemies, he stated that if you don't practice compassion toward your enemy then on whom can you practice it, and then implied that animals cannot love this way...
4. Keep loving everyone this way even if they are mean to you and hurt you even to the point of death. (In other words, practice loving in this fashion at all times; though rain, snow, and dark of night.) As Aristotle said, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit." So to have this love, you must make it a part of yourself, make it a habit to always look out for everyone else's (Friend & Foe's) best interest...
5. Accept the Source of this AGAPE Love into your heart and God (the source of Agape) will start pouring this love through you out to others...

Welcome to the ROOT philosophy of Christianity, GOD is the source of this selfless love, AGAPE...
1 John 4:16b - God is love (agape), and the one abiding in love abides in God and God in him.
Ndmonger 19:25, 31 March 2006

Actually the goal of Agape is for man to better understand the Love of God for His creation. It is the epitome of what Community was created to look like - that which was peaceable and orderly. When Adam and Eve disobeyed God by participating in the forbidden fruit, it was an act of selfish pursuit of autonomy - which is contrary to how God created us (communal beings). Therefore, AGAPE becomes the best love language that defines God's sacrificial, unconditional and transformational love toward his creation. No other Greek word comes close.
Chris Coney 29 March 2010

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