Why is falling in love the most beautiful feeling? Because it is a series of moments that are full of potential, possibilities. A lover looks at life in frames, much like a photographer or film maker does. He strains, effortlessly, every moment, to experience to the fullest the most beautiful essence of the present. There is a sense of shared delight, a sense of oneness with existence through the beloved, because the beloved is more than "just another person". The beloved is a symbol. And it is in this respect that the beloved assumes the qualities of eternity and infinity. In the shade of her hair is the choicest perfume that all the jasmine trees in the world cannot offer. In the sweetness of her kiss is the tenderness that never before was. The experiencer creates, or more appropriately, co-creates his reality with the beloved and all that is available to him at the moment within the frame of his experience. To drink the essence of the moment is indeed the essence of love. The proof is that when a love affair ends, there is even in the ending a sweetness. The ending is to the lover not a full stop, but rather a full stop magnified as it were, infinitely, till it assumes the proportions of an endless, bottomless pit of intense emotion into which one falls, and keeps falling. It is, in a sense, death - the drowning of the self in the ocean of emotion. Therefore, to die to the self, is to love.
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