What have you learned about love?

I've learned that love means to know the deepest experience of joy and pain in a way that no other experience in life can offer us.  When I'm in love, the joy is inexpressible, an energy that carries me thru the most difficult of situations with an internal peace ...  I am invincible.  When I don't feel love, lose love, or reject love, there exists a pain within me that clouds my every experience, and I  become incapable of healing on a very deep level.   Because of this I've learned how important it is to learn to LOVE MYSELF as a daily practice, taking the time each day to care for my body, mind and soul, I remind myself each day of my gratitutde in the people and the many small things in my life, and each day, I make time for myself and to BE with myself.  When I feel uncomfortable being with me, then I know that I'm not loving myself enough, and that means I'm blocking love from coming into my life.  So the truest of love begins at the source .... me!   Then and only then, love is an energy that flows from me and attracts love to me.  That is what I've learned about love!

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.  ~ Henry David Thoreau

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.  ~ Henry Van Dyke