I have pondered the thought for many years " What is Love?" It has been determoned that "LOVE" is a force of nature. It cannot be commanded, demanded nor will it dissapear. We can stage a seduction or mount a courtship, but the result is more likely to be infatuation, or two illusions dancing together, not LOVE.
Love is bigger than us. You can invite love, but you cannot dictate how, when, and where love expresses itself. You can choose to surrender to love, or not, but in the end love strikes like lightening, unpredictable and irrefutable. You can even find yourself loving people you don't like at all. Love does not come with conditions, stipulations, addendums, or codes. Like the sun, love radiates independently of our fears and desires.
Love is inherently free. It cannot be bought, sold, or traded. You cannot make someone love you for any amount of money. Love cannot be imprisoned nor can it be legislated. Love is not a substance nor a commodity. Love has no territory, no borders, no quantifiable mass or energy output.
Love cannot be turned on as a reward nor can it be turned off as a punishment. Only something else pretending to be love can be used as a lure, as a hook, for bait and switch, imitated, insinuated, but the real deal can never be delivered if it doesn't spring freely from the heart.
Love does not say, "If you want to be loved you must be nice, or do what I want, or never love anyone else, or promise you'll never leave me."
Love is inherently compassionate and empathic. Love knows that the "other" is also oneself. This is the true nature of love and love itself can not be manipulated or restrained. Love honors the sovereignty of each soul. Love is its own law.