Oleg Cherne

Love is above all a certain human condition expressing one's relationship to nature, the surrounding world and the people around. The one who understands the nature of love, will understand the nature of man, his own nature. Man must learn about love, he/she must learn to love himself /herself and understand Man's inherent principles and qualities.

To love oneself is to know one's spirit. Only a man who knows his own nature can express a conscious attitude towards the world that surrounds him where man knows himself through the action of love, and woman - in the state of love. The lack of understanding for the nature of love and the state of love transforms into a reflex originating from desire and consumption - and these are typical for the animal and not related to the principle of human existence.

When man lived in a rhythm harmonious with his nature, to him love was a feeling. Yet today love resembles a sacrifice, a caring and courting, it is realized in a certain period of man's life that he lives feeling content with his actions. Love is the feeling that carries the human potential for ecstatic experience in its purest form.

The ecstatic experience in love is characterised by certain signs. The first one being the ability to preserve the feeling of love. Love should not be dependent on any reasons. For it is an internal experience, it's a feeling. Love is to have a proper understanding of your own actions or a proper awareness of your time.

If one has known the feeling of love, he cannot remain passive. For love is a certain form of existence. It needs no additional external influences, it is self-sufficient. Love can only be nurtured. If love has limits, it is no love, but simply some vessel where love can either be grown or not.

Love is devoid of falsehood, it cannot be real or unreal. It either is or is not. Therefore, it cannot be defined. Which does not mean that it is unrecognizable. Love is a concentrated feeling. To men it is a certain state of mind, to women love is like replenishing. Thus love can never be blind but is always pure and clear.

Love is a force, it's a powerful personal conviction, and is therefore a concept. It has its own principles and laws that perfect it, its basic law being: Love should make you stronger and not weaken you. If such a feeling exists, then it has its energy equivalent that can be studied. In other words, love should, at the very least, be developed, and should itself develop man's volition and intentions. The lazy man can never know love; he may only wish for love and delude himself that he has reached it.

Love is a need. It is the most normal and natural feeling inherent in human physiology. But losing his natural rhythm, man has lost a very important opportunity - to fulfil himself in true love.

Love has a name, and this name is Love. It is a personified sensation man feels for himself, for someone else, for the ecstatic experience, or for God... If love should have a practical significance, then it's the fact that it connects people. Love is being connected, a relationship, it is a name concealing a constant yet a clearly designatable action.

Love should be tasted. It should help man feel unified with his own nature, and with space. Therefore, in love man should woe himself and behave in a manner that allows him to experience enjoyment fully - through tastes and colors, aromas, sounds and actions... Thus one can use love to make a wondrous product that can be tasted. Yet this is only possible if one feels and preserves love constantly.