“Love” as socially communicated:
Conditioned, circumstantial, reliant, exclusive, demanding, fleeting, impermanent.
Hearts and valentines.
Something given and taken away.
Scorching passion. Glacial apathy.
Interpersonal possession and dependence.
Love as experienced:
Empowering, indiscriminate, comforting, ever-present, pervasive, foundational, eternal.
Luminous and magnetic.
Something inside, to be acknowledged, in all of us, by all us us.
Warmth from honest embrace of being.
Transcendent interdependence and appreciation.