On Valentines’ Day we celebrate all types of love, not just romantic love. So what better time to ask, “What is Love?”
The definition of love varies depending on who you ask or where you look. It takes on many different forms. This is why defining it is so complicated. Most of us are pretty sure we know love when we feel it, yet the emotion, or the state of mind, is complex.
Love is a feeling of strong emotional attachment but can range from affection, to caring, to deep devotion.
Love is a virtue. It can describe compassionate and affectionate feelings for other humans, for animals, in fact for anything – even something intangible like music.
Love, of the romantic kind, is something that often delights us. It pervades music, novels, television and films. We talk about people falling in love and love at first sight. When we witness love shared between two people it can make us happy. Romantic love can be love between people of different sexes or people of the same sex. Our world benefits from love of every kind and there can never be enough love.
Love is something we all need. When we show or are shown kindness it is a form of love. When we do something thoughtful, no matter how small, we’re performing an act of love.
Love is a healer. Through love hurts can be healed. Love can bring more harmony to our world. Through its proliferation problems can be solved.
“Love is the greatest power in the universe. The Great Spirit is the acme of love,” said Silver Birch, the well known Spirit Guide.
Love is the very essence of each one of us because we are derived from, and are all minute parts of, that one loving energy, The Great Spirit i.e. God.
