#to be in love

“When you say I fall in love, I am in love with her, another way to say it is - She is a stimulus which turns me on, connects me, allows me to connect to the place in myself where I am love. And when two people are “in love with each other” they are each turning each other on to the place in themselves where they are in love and when two people are in love that means they are meeting in the space of love. And what happens to us is we get hooked on our connection. And you’re in love with her or him and you think it’s the her or the him when actually the love is the state of your own being. It’s just that they are your connection to open it, because they see you in a certain way and they allow you to see yourself in a certain way. [..]”

ram dass: here and now

ep. 91 - more profound than miracles