Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
Once we're willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead of fear. Where we used to think about what was 'safe,' we now become interested in doing what seems right or fun or meaningful or ripe with possibilities.
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.
Love is indeed, at root, the product of the firings of neurons and release of hormones.
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.
Romantic love came under attack, first from the Freudians and then from the neuroscientists, who said that being in love was a chemical reaction in the brain. Marriage is no longer seen as a lifetime commitment.
Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love.