Falling in Love: Part Four: Marc Gafni

What happens when you fall in love?

There is one particular moment when we yearn for nothing, when friends and systems of relationship are unnecessary, when parents are forgotten and the need for food, sleep and self-examination flies out of the window. This one moment of overarching certainty is when we fall in love. When we fall in love there are no questions…love is the answer.

The experience of falling in love shouts from the rooftops — “You are valuable! You are worthy of being loved! You are infinitely special – there is no one else like you!” We walk around with what we feel is absolute proof that “the world was created for me” or at the very least with a crystal-clear understanding that our love would have been sufficient reason to create the world.

What is more, falling in love is the experience in life where we feel most personally addressed by the beyond. It is a cosmic embrace in which we feel infinitely cared for not only by our lover but by the universe itself. We glimpse for a short time what it might be like to be completely seen and completely loved. The world is made a home only by the opening of the heart. Common Latin etymology even teaches us that heart and hearth are rooted in the same soil of love.

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