You see, love is just not a feeling, or faith, hope, or courage.

It's not just a feeling.

It's a mode of being in the world, and it is a form of acting in the world, a disposition to behave in the world. So we come to what is

love. Now, you know, love is the key that unlocks the door to ultimate reality, which is to say

it is the most powerful way of being in the world.

It is the most poignant mode of action in the world.

And it's, of course, bittersweet.

It could take us to the heights, the highest heights of the sublime and the majestic. And it could take us to the lowest

depths of sadness and sorrow because it's the most intense form of being alive.

You know, Tennessee says it's better to have loved and lost and never to have loved at all.

He's really safe.

You want to find out what is really like to be alive,

you know,

that last song in Sonheim's company of 1970,

being alive.

The ups and the down,

the rounds and the rounds,

the heartaches and heart breaks as well as the unbelievable joys and pleasures.

So that it's in the end, you know, we don't have language that would ever capture the complexity of love as a phenomena, as a force in the world.

But I would argue that it is a form of death, that love and death constitute the two fundamental poles of human existence, and that you learn how to love by learning how to die because things inside

you must die in order for that new being to come out of you. And love is all ways in that sense

associated with that new being associated with transformation of your

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