The different ways in which people experience being loved and loving is interesting.

I agree that the experience of love involves emotions however I suspect LOVE is more more then an emotion which may be why it isn’t always ‘logical’. As seen in many of the responses a person can experience the emotions of love yet still ‘fall out of love’.

As the song goes ‘Whats love got to do with it, What’s love but a second-hand emotion? The suggestion that the emotion response of Love is a second hand experience to LOVE, not the experience all and in itself. The emotion pointing to Love, like the finger that points to the moon…  it is a error to mistake the finger for the moon… it may be a error to mistake a emotion as LOVE.

A finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. The finger is needed to know where to look for the moon, but if you mistake the finger for the moon itself, you will never know the real moon.

Even the five languages of love are only ‘fingers’ that point to LOVE  and not love itself. Its complicated as the language you speak, how you express your love to another, may be different then the language you hear, how you experience being love.  Thus we find ourselves left “gazing at our hands” wondering What’s love got to do with it when Love is all you need…

Love transparent to the transcendent? meaning I think one must learn to see through the words, labels and emotions to “see” what the words and labels can only point to?

Seeing though is not the same as seeing past. The finger does after all play a role in ‘seeing’ the moon.