'If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.'
- Emmett Fox
 
Love is a feeling of affection, adoration and oneness. Love is a great inspiration. Love helps us in reaching out for our best. The power of love if channeled correctly results in the great pieces of work. Only love can defeat hatred. The ultimate lasting victory is the touching, moving and winning of the heart. Love is amplified when shared.

Science of Love:
Helen Fisher is an anthropologist and a human behavior researcher at the Rutgers University. She is considered the world’s leading expert on the topic of love. In her ground-breaking book “The Anatomy of Love” (published in 1992), she postulated three main phases of love:

1. Lust - an intense longing. Lust is the initial passionate desire that promotes mating.
   1. Involves the increased release of chemicals such as testosterone and estrogen.
   2. Appearance, smells, and other similar factors play a decisive role.
   3. Effects rarely last more than a few weeks or months.
2. Attraction - an action that tends to draw people together. At this stage the person concentrates their affection on a single mate and fidelity becomes important.
   • As people fall in love, the brain consistently releases a certain set of chemicals, including pheromones, dopamine (also activated by cocaine and nicotine), norepinephrine (otherwise known as adrenalin), and serotonin, which act similar to amphetamines, stimulating the brain's pleasure center.
   • The body effects are increased heart rate, loss of appetite and sleep, and an intense feeling of excitement.
   • This stage generally lasts from one and a half to three years.
   • Attachment - a bonding progression. When a person has known a loved one for a long time, they develop a deeper attachment to their partner.
     1. It has been linked to higher levels of the chemicals oxytocin (released by the hypothalamus gland during child birth and also helps the breast express milk) and vasopressin than short-term relationships have.
     2. Attachment is generally based on commitments such as marriage and children, or on mutual friendship based on things like shared interests.
     3. The attachment phase usually happens in about 30 months. After that time, the passion fades, changing love from consummate to companionate, or from romantic love to liking.

Stages of love:

• Self.
• Other individual.
• Humanity, Nature or Universe: Everything - plants, animals and humans.

Thoughts:
“Love is true religion. Being in love is being religious.” – Manu

“Religion without love is like a body without soul.” – Manu

“Love is unconquerable because love conquers all.” – Manu

“Love is the only permanent solution of hatred, crimes & terrorism.” – Manu

“Love is almost equally as important as food, if not more.” - Manu

Religion:
"Sattva—pure, luminous, and free from sorrow—binds us to happiness and wisdom".

Sattva, translated as purity, helps one to see that love evolves from selflessness. - The Bhagavad Gita (Number 6), helps devotees to see that love conquers all.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
– Bible (1 Corinthians 13:4-8:)

Love is the best antidepressant:
The more love we feel, the happier we are.
The less love we have, the more depressed we are likely to feel. The most common sources of depression is feeling unloved. It is a myth that love just happens. As a result, we passively sit around waiting for someone to love us. Love doesn't work that way. To get love and keep love we have to go out and be active and learn the skills of love. Erich Fromm (writer of “The Art of Loving”) called it "an act of will."

Love is a learned skill:
Erich Fromm writes about love as an art, a practice, a faculty, to be developed and improved upon within yourself. He describes pop culture's form of romantic love as passive and consumerist. You find the right object for your love and then everything just happens from there. He argues that romantic love needs to be founded on top of love of self and love of all humanity. He writes, 'If I can say to somebody else, "I love you," I must be able to say, "I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself."

Simple affirmation to do every day: “I love myself”
Whenever you see mirror going forward, you will say internally or externally “I love myself”. This will happen at least once in a day going forward. We can not give anything unless we have that thing. Same goes for love. We must have LOVE in order to give it to others. The easiest way to do is to build the “self love”. This simple technique can bring amazing miraculous transformations in your life.