The Power of Love

Scientists, philosophers and laypersons have been struggling with the definition and understanding of what love is for thousands of years.  Politicians have used love to gain power and control in many civilization, yet they still could not understand its true nature.

So what is love and what is it about love that makes it so powerful?

What you think I have the answer - me of all people?

Well, guess what, I do have the answer – the answer for me that is.

Love is very simply a state of mind that arises from various influences.  The influences can be both internal and external.  But the buttom line is that something happens in our bodies that puts us in a state of mind whereby suddenly we are no longer the most important person in our lives.  A state of mind where we place someone else, sometimes something else ahead ahead of us.  We know this to be true because people have given their lives for their love. 

Scientists have analyzed the chemicals in our blood and patterns in our brain to identify when someone is in ‘love’.  There are clear things that happen to us when we are in love.  But, I don’t need a scientist to tell me when I’m in love, or when I meet someone in love.  It is in their eyes, in their heart, in their very essence.  And there is nothing more beautiful than someone in love.  Just like an expectant mother in love with her unborn child.

You can take a man’s house, his car, his money, his career, but you take away his love and you destroy him.  For some men that love is their live purpose, for others it is a woman.

Are you in love?  With who or what?