Love is a divinely heady feeling - when I'm experiencing it, I feel like flying up into the air, gently twirling (clockwise)... and softly landing back on earth. Every step has a spring in it, the chemical rush bringing on a wide smile, and a sense of excitement and bliss. The breathing is deep and complete, and my mind is at peace with the world around me. There's also a craving to be united with and experience being with my object of love. There's nothing more I need in life... I want to spend all my time in seclusion with my love... I can't seem to spend enough time, wanting our meetings to last forever. We don't have to talk, or do anything - we could be completely quiet, just gazing into each other, feeling each other's presence. All the clutter in the mind vanishes, and I feel so complete. There's also a feeling of elevation over all... above all the petty things that once bothered me. It's a sense of unity with a higher state of existence, in a world of our own - just me and my love.
Mozart knew this well. Many of his compositions give a glimpse of the pristine beauty and longing in love. Just listening to some of his works elevates the mind to a pleasant state - it feels like sitting with my love (on my left), leaning onto my chest, in the shade of a tree by a clear blue lake, with only the sound of an occasional bird for company. Mozart makes me realize that somewhere beyond our mundane existence, a higher state exists for us to discover and experience... from which one would never want to return. This must be how the bloke who got out of Plato's cave felt when he saw the outside world.
How would our lives change if the object of our love is God? The concept of God encompasses the known and the unknown. By sustaining this affaire de cœur with God, one would progressively reach higher levels, where new knowledge and insights get revealed, and a new paradigm emerges. This is the power of love - to connect us with the infinite, and to transform our lives. That heady feeling can indeed take us places we never knew existed.
