What really is love?

Love is not an emotion, as most of us understand it to be. Rather, it is a state of being. This means that whenever you are with somebody or something, no matter who the person or object is, and no matter how long or short a period of time you are with them, you give them one hundred per cent of yourself. That is love. Whether it is with a human being, a plant or an animal, when you give them of yourself entirely, when they walk away from you feeling so special because you have made them the most special thing in your life in that moment, that is love.

When you love, even the trees will talk to you; even the grass on the lawn will talk to you; even the bricks and the stones and the table and the chairs… everything will communicate with you because you are open to everything and you don’t have a little box around your life in which you only communicate with humans and your pet dog. Love goes beyond that. It is this understanding and this communication with the whole universe around you that is love.

There are no words for love. It is an experience. You communicate with the universe because you do not live in your body. Instead, you live in an existence and a state which we call love and which cannot be explained but can only be experienced.

You cannot qualify or quantify love. You can’t even call it the most beautiful feeling because that is again qualifying it. Love defies beauty. For example, when you look at an object which is very beautiful, you say it is priceless. It doesn’t mean that it is so cheap that it has no price, but it goes beyond being labelled with a price. The same thing holds for love. It goes beyond being called beautiful.

To put it simply, love is a state which is beyond ecstasy, beyond euphoria, beyond utopia, beyond everything. It just is!