What is love?

According to society love is quite simply everything that has to do with hearts and flowers, chocolates and diamonds, happiness and infatuation. It comes in the form of kisses, first dates, or perhaps a warm and tingly feeling that we get when someone walks into the room. Sadly, it seems that this kind of love can quickly turn into empty promises, disappointment, regret, and loneliness.

 

Thankfully, love is none of these things. True love, complete love, is so, so much more. More than we have time to cover in a simple blog post.

According to the dictionary of Bioethics: "love is the deepest meaning of human life". According to St. Thomas "love is to want the good of others, and wanting to be attached to the other. "Therefore, love is not sentiment, but an act of willingness by the want of the person. The ultimate meaning of human life is in love, the actual origin of life must spring from it.

Does not speak of any love, but of personal love that admires the beauty of the uniqueness of the person, always open to show attention and care. This love is based on the consideration of the person as unique and irreplaceable, requiring grow, develop and improve without fatigue.

Of this fact springs the importance of care for the dimension "transcendental" of love, that connects with the spiritual life. The depth of love is linked with God, who brings love to his most sublime height and feeds it from its original root.