When Love Is Done

The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies,
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies,
When love is done.

-F. W. Bourdillon: Among the Flowers

Falling in Love

Falling in love often presents us with the opportunity of experiencing a deeper reality. Feeling that someone was fated to come into one’s life, having a sense that
someone is a soul mate, appeals to a level of reality not referred to by our
ongoing concerns with practical matters. It suggests that there is some meaning
in life that is not created by us, but is there to be found. Falling in love
also gives many people a sense that such powerful feelings have trans-human
origins, that somehow the divine is connected with the love they feel.

-Bonnelle Lewis Strickling: Dreaming about the Divine (2007)

Erich Fromm Quote - Love is Union

LOVE IS UNION with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under
the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own
self. It is an experience of sharing, of communing, which permits
the full unfolding of one's own inner activity.

-Erich Fromm