What is love- Emotion- Conviction- Concept- Ideal- Energy- Ecstasy- Impulse- Vibration- What one lives can’t be defined. Love has a thousand meanings, is seen in a thousand colors, confuses like an enigma, fascinates like a siren.
Some think there is no difference between love and hate, that the latter is the other facet of the first. Others say that egotism and love are one and the same energy. And so they are. Only the one to whom it is addressed changes. The streets are full of songs and the songs are full of love. In the name of love, beautiful lies are invented; in its name, death cloaks itself with life, andóhow often! –life cloaks itself with death.
Its banners are a rose and a heart. People say that its crown is the love of a mother. But they also speak of possessive mothers, who seem to love to the point of paroxysm, when in reality they love themselves. This is all full of ambiguities and must he clarified.
The Evangelist John begins by identifying two words: God and Love. Both expressions, for him, are like two stars: they contain the same fire. If we say that God is love, we may add that where there is love, there is God. Pursuing the same chain of thoughts, we arrive at another conclusion: where there is no love, there is no God; and where there is no God, there cannot be love.
There is always tension in love because it extends its wings over two poles. It begins by opening a person toward his interior. This is the implosive phase: first, love explodes inwardly.
´If God so loved us, we also must love one another in the same way. If we love one another, he himself will personally dwell in us. We will be transformed into shining mirrors, and God will make himself visible to all men´.
Extracted from the book Come With Me, by f. Ignacio Larranaga
