"What is LOVE"

I've been asked quite a few times recently, how it is, after all I have been through, that I still have faith and can believe in love? .... Ok .. Gotta go DEEP on this one on ya ... think you know me well enough now not to expect this ... lol ...

First of all ... Put God first in all you do! ...

I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ. 1 Corinthians 11:3
LOVE is patient and kind;LOVE is not jealous or boastful;it is not arrogant or rude.LOVE does not insist on its own way;it is not irritable or resentful;it does not rejoice at wrong,but rejoices in the right.LOVE bears all things, believes all things,hopes all things, endures all things.LOVE never ends …So faith, hope, love abide, these three,but the greatest of these is LOVE.1 Corinthians 13:4-8a, 13

The world as a whole has forgotten the real meaning of the word love. Love has been so abused and crucified by man that very few people know what true love is. Just as oil is present in every part of the olive, so love permeates every part of creation. But to define love is very difficult, for the same reason that words cannot fully describe the flavor of an orange. You have to taste the fruit to know its flavor. So with love.
In the universal sense, love is the divine power of attraction in creation that harmonizes, unites, binds together....Those who live in tune with the attractive force of love achieve harmony with nature and their fellow beings, and are attracted to blissful reunion with God.
"Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions," [Sri Yukteswar said]. "Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch of pure love."
Many human beings say "I love you" one day and reject you the next. That is not love. One whose heart is filled with the love of God cannot willfully hurt anyone. When you love God without reservation, He fills your heart with His unconditional love for all. That love no human tongue can describe....The ordinary man is incapable of loving others in this way. Self-centered in the consciousness of "I, me, and mine," he has not yet discovered the omnipresent God who resides in him and in all other beings.
To me there is no difference between one person and another; I behold all as soul-reflections of the one God. I can't think of anyone as a stranger, for I know that we are all part of the One Spirit. When you experience the true meaning of religion, which is to know God, you will realize that He is your Self, and that He exists equally and impartially in all beings. Then you will be able to love others as your own Self.
... Love is totally a spititual feeling that come's from a heart that unconditionally first love's himself and love's God so much that he/she will live by His Word and in return God will most always Bless you.

I LOVE GOD & ME ... SO I CAN AND DO LOVE YOU!