"In the lives we currently know, true love is nonexistent. If we start rising to our next degree of development, above our current life, where we all come from, then we can start discovering true love. There is a need today to re-educate ourselves about love, even though life itself is doing the job of re-educating us. We need to realize that there is no love in this world, the way we imagine it, read about it in novels, or see it in films. The instances of love and romance that we see are reflections of an omnipresent higher love that gradually draws us to its discovery. And the discovery of this higher love is synonymous with discovering the meaning of life. It is a completely different feeling. It is an attraction, connection and fulfillment that is whole, perfect and eternal. The ideas about love that propagate through novels, TV shows and films only confuse us. From a biological standpoint, we should by all means find suitable mates, raise families and our next generation. But more importantly, if we direct our aspirations spiritually, toward love for all humanity, then everything will fall into place. In traditional families, until around the 18th century, parents would look for a match for their children of a similar background, or they would find one themselves in their close environment. Those were strong families because they were looking for somebody like themselves. For a young woman, the parent would look for a husband who would suit her, not based on love, but based on aspirations, tastes, and the likeness to the man’s parents. She would have to meet his mother and see if she was at all like her. If she was similar, then it was the beginning of a strong family. A man would see something of his mother in his wife, and when he saw a part of his mother in her, he would already relate to her on those terms. He would then treat his wife cautiously, with love and fear, like a child with his mother. We can then even call it love. As my teacher used to say, love is an animal that needs to be fed with mutual concessions. When this feeling grows, then it can be called “love.”