Define Love in your own words.

I would like to talk about Love again.  True Love, Real Love, Passionate Love and Love for our fellow man too.  More than a mere definition, I wonder what Love means.  What does it mean to love someone or to be in-love with someone.  How does it differ among those of different cultures?  How does it really feel or what are the signs that affirm Love?  Some people have said that real actual Love is far beyond definition and cannot be put within those types of parameters.  In other words, surpasses any definition.  No one can list the traits and qualities that make Love happen...how it grows or where it comes from.  Love doesn't actually "just happen" does it? Does Love happen in serendipitous events like a movie or in plain moments?  Should people choose a mate based on compatability and friendship or should they jump when they become overwhelmed by a feeling?  Who decides when what they feel is "more than a feeling"?  What makes it more?  What makes it last?  What makes it leave?

I did a bit of research on the internet before I began to write this article tonight.  In fact, I began this article more than 24 hours ago but it is a difficult subject for me to conclusively write about and I am happy to admit that I know next to nothing about love.  The Lion is stumped!  I like to spend as much time as possible lavishing and basking...Love takes work and effort.  I can be somewhat lazy in these areas!  I mean, I like to know I deserve something that I have and that I have earned it...but I dislike getting all sweaty from the work.  I like my furry coat and mane to be relatively untousled from perspiration.  After all, the Lion needs to be the distinct Pillar of Beauty and Majesty at all times.  Anyone who doesn't think so is either NOT a Leo or is wrong...and that is that.  Clearly, in all partnerships there must be compromise in order to keep balance.  But is the same true of Love?  Is there compromise in Love or is the compromise simply a subset of the Relationships which result from love?  This is the real question.  Does Love cause us to have to lose something?  Is it a choice made by the rational mind or is Love something we experience on the outside of choice and it just happens?  Furthermore...is Love an act of the heart or is it a Spirit-guided thing?  How does Love connect with our Souls and how does the Soul and Love connection work?  Does one Soul love another?  Is one Soul destined to be connected with another certain Soul or is it all sort of random and undetermined?  Who knows the answer to these questions?  I would really like to consult a Love Expert.  I think I will perform a Google Search and see if there is such a thing as a Love Expert.  If there is not, I may set out to become the first ever Love Expert so that I can know as much as can possibly be known on the subject and then hopefully use that knowledge to help every person I possibly can to get the most satisfaction humanly and spiritually possible out of all their love relationships.  And by the way, ALL of your relationships are Love relationships.  Whatever you want to call it is up to you but every person you encounter in life...you are supposed to offer them love.  They all need it and so do you.  Practice makes progress.  So in my research I discovered an article that debated whether marriage was outdated or the ultimate demonstration of True Love.  I suppose that article really got me thinking...about where I stand on that and every issue pertaining to Love. 

It would appear that I am on yet another mission in life...to decide where I stand on the matters of the heart and to explore this in my Lioness glory as I travel this summer and spend quality time with Loved ones.  And yes,  ALL are Loved ones.  All are One and that is true.  You are me and I am you.  I even feel like writing Love poetry...the only conclusive evidence I have that Love is real is Poetry!  Poetry can come in many forms.  These days, poetic expressions of Love can come via text messaging!  It's true.  I myself have received lovely and deeply moving expressions of love in the form of text messages so wonderful that it pains me to delete them.  These are the kinds of things that should be chronicled and bound in leather and written in caligraphy for the truly open heart to enjoy and cherish.  That is another fine point...Love appears to us when our hearts are open.  But like a door, we can choose to be open or closed.  We can remain open  if we choose or close people out altogether.  This freedom to choose is our birthright.  But the density of 3 dimensional life covers our eyes and keeps us from seeing the truth and that truth is this:  All are One.  You are me and I am you.  We are all connected.  What you feel, I will feel.  What gives you sorrow, hurts me too.  What causes you joy and laughter, will bring a smile to my face and I will not know why.  We are all connected.

I am seeking to define Love in my own words...on my own terms.  Once I have clarity and definition on this, nothing and no one will ever take it from me or sway my opinion.  I believe I will discover that Love has no energy to it unless it has a Purpose and is driven by that purpose to come to life.  Can Love be a living thing and a dead thing?  I have seen and felt and experienced Love that is alive and Love that is dead.  They both exist and I can say this confidently.  Love can be asleep!  But it becomes Alive when given purpose.  Love does not need a physical manifestation to exist.  Some Lovers never touch..they are not together.  Some Love works from within or is hidden in the hearts of the beloveds.  This kind of Love is Spiritual...it works because two souls are connected and they resonate together.  It is nearly indefinable except among those who have experienced this level of closeness with another person and can attest to it's truth.  Those who have had these experiences are believers and often find it difficult to share the exact experience with people who have never had it.  So how can it be achieved?  What can we advise anyone who is looking for this kind of Love Connection?  That is another important query I would like to explore.

Some of my favorite Real-Life Love Stories are those that begin during childhood and adolescence.  I believe that the couple who have found one another at these tender ages are some of the wisest and purest people alive.  I know of 3 couples that I can conclusively say from my own first-hand experience, have this purity and wisdom in Love.  I do not know for certain if they are Twin Flame Partners but in all three cases, they are at the very least SoulMates.  When I contemplate the marriages of any of these three couples, I feel joy and happiness that I cannot describe.  Their Love is so strong and so real...I can literally feel it.  I can feel how they long for each other and how they desire only good things for each other.  These are the only people in my life who truly inspire me towards Love and increase my Hope for Love in my own life.  I have never had difficulty finding Love...in other words, finding someone to love me.  Sometimes Love lasts and sometimes it has been fleeting...but every relationship from my past has always consisted of Love in some degree...whatever degree my Love was able to share it.  That is all we can ever expect.

So I will continue to define Love and hopefully become an expert.  I should mark this day on the calendar...a very important day since it has taught me so much about the ways we are all interconnected on this Beautiful Gaia, Mother Earth.  This day has increased my faith in myself and my outreach.  I see how my Love heals and refreshes the people to whom I openly give it.  I feel myself resisting Love and failing to share and refusing to be completely open.  This is a scaredy-cat Lion.  Hey, no Lion is perfect.  Wait...scratch that!  Every Lion is perfect.

Lilac