Love is not only a feeling

Friendship of people of the opposite sex with time can imperceptibly develop into a deeper intimate feeling - love that binds people together for a long time.
If friendship is the first act of spiritual rapprochement of people, then love is the final one, which is the pinnacle of human intimacy.
Love is not only a feeling, but also the ability to love another person, as well as the opportunity to be loved. It requires effort and effort, the ultimate goal of which can be expressed in one word - self-improvement, that is, raising yourself to the heights of the dignity of love, to the ability to give it to others. Love is also an art that needs to be learned and in which it is necessary to constantly improve.
Love is a kind of relationship between people that does not allow the domination of one person over another or the unquestioning obedience of one to another. In love, both sides are equal, one does not sacrifice itself for the sake of the other, and each, without losing anything, only gains. People in this type of relationship do not remain separated. Together they form an inseparable whole, each side or part of which serves as a condition and the most important prerequisite for the improvement of the other.
By giving his life force and energy to another being in love, a person shares his joy with him, increasing his own, expanding his understanding of the world, enriching his personal horizons, experience, knowledge and experiences, which together constitute his spiritual wealth. In love, a person gives to receive, and receives to give. True love causes an explosion in the response energy of a person, a reverse movement of spiritual generosity.
Love involves caring for another person, an interest in improving his life and development. Where there is none, there cannot be true love. Love is the mercy and responsibility of a loving person for a loved one. This is respect for him, and active penetration into it for the purpose of knowledge, but without violating the right to have secrets and remain a person.
Passionate knowledge of another in love is different from mindless contemplation and indifferent thinking, used as a soulless means of knowing the world.
This is cognition through spiritual rapprochement, identification with a loved one, experiencing identity with him.
A person who deeply and truly loves someone cannot love only him alone. His love extends his blessed qualities to other people around him. Loving, personally enriched by this feeling, an excess of it gives other people in the form of kindness and cordiality, responsiveness and humanity.