To answer the question "what is love?" first, let's take look at what it isn't:

Love is NOT:

Possession, like car in the garage, a wardrobe full of clothes... etc.

Egoic domination or maintaining a sense of belonging...

Feelings or emotions; a bunch chemical, physiological responses...

-Because the above things are only reactions to love.

Many of the above reactions may cause an outness of alignment with real love, resulting in suffering negative consequences; anger, jealousy, regret, suspicion, resentment, heavy judgment connected with fear...

Further, and in contrast, the laws of attraction may not work if there is an over-focus on the materialist 5-sense 3-D reality: This may cause a mis-alignment with the higher 5-D love vibration, preventing the intended manifestation from happening.

Another reason why love is something we don't really understand is because it's something that's much bigger than us. Therefore, it's effective to know that we don't know what love truly really is.

Love is a process you engage in to understand who you really are. It's a never-ending unfolding process, as love has no boundaries. The quicker this can be learned, the better off you'll be!

The more this alignment-to-love process is applied the freer you'll be: As the fog lifts, in your expression, you become more soul-dominant. Having raised your vibration, you'll have more cause and effect in your life.

Yes, of course, love is not merely a romance. - it's much more than that, so, let's look at the following. How does the following fit in your life?

What is love? Love is:

1. An intrinsic natural love for yourself.

Self-love is an absolute must-have when we face having to choose between so many contrasting vibrations such as, for example, unworthiness and its different forms.

When you discover who you truly really are, in alignment with love, you experience soul and self-love.

Consider the consequences. Consider creating the space from self-love!

2. Your innate love for partnership, children and other family members.

To love somebody is to simply accept them for the way they are and the way they are not.

Any problems in relationships? -Then communicate: If in doubt talk it out!

Love is the outcome of being in communication.

Love and communication: An increase of one produces an increase in the other.

3. A devotion to and caring for the groups or teams you belong to and loving the related teamwork...

What other way is there to play life's ball games! Camaraderie, loyalty, honesty and trust stem from the love of being with those people you belong to in groups, teams and the related teamwork. Indeed, one aspect of this shows that human beings are natural social animals in their behaviour.

4. An intrinsic natural love for the human race.

For that much-needed planetary turnaround to happen we the human race must unselfishly act as one. We must come together and choose the vibratory pathway aligned to love and act from this place. Consider this collective grouping tapped into the love vibration with its powerful synergistic effects.

-This is the essence of those who have already awakened: The front-runners creating and forging the cutting-edge new paradigm pathway for a world that makes a difference for everyone.

5. A respect for all living things.

Since we cannot create life forms then our love and respect should be given to all living things. Give help where there's suffering or devastation. No cruelty or exploitation. For examples, no animal cruelty or chopping trees down unnecessarily...

In other words, express our humanity; show kindness, consideration, empathy, caring and compassion by helping all living things.

Acknowledge that all living things are like us, an expression of the One: God - All-There-Is.

6. An innate loving for all things environmental; a caring for Mother Earth and our universe...

For one of many instances, kudos to all those having an active involvement in dealing with the problem we face with bottom of the sea environmental plastic pollution. A recent study only spells out the gravity of the situation while this is occurring at seas worldwide.

7. Having an affinity for the spiritual.

-Notice as we go down this list, the love gets bigger...? How big is your love?!

It's important to maintain a balance between the physical and the spiritual when practicing spirituality.

For instance, over the centuries and as a rebuttal to the control and domination of the Roman Catholic church science and the scientific approach was born. Instead of incorporating the spiritual, science became closed and dogmatic, only focussing its unwavering attention on materialism.

This still goes on today. Science, in order to progress, desperately needs to go beyond the dogmatic confines of materialism and reductionism.

-Remember, as Nikola Tesla said:

"The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence."

Awakened, courageous scientists will go beyond the limiting materialistic dogmas, embrace and integrate the spiritual for a new paradigm scientific approach. This without a doubt has to be the only way forward.

8 = ∞ (8 turned to the side to form the "infinity" symbol) A natural intrinsic love for God: ALL-THERE-IS

-That concludes this take on "what is love."