“I feel the love in my chest. It's like a fire. It expands. If it gets up into my head, my eyes water and I begin to weep.

It feels more real than anything else. It's more real than floors and walls than boys and girls. More real than streets and sidewalks, than the sun and the stars. Only the love is real.

When she's with me, she's the most beautiful woman in the history of the world. You could swap her out for Michelle Pfeiffer and I would say no give me back Naiyana.”

- anonymous old fool

Plato's Gorgias

Dante Alighieri's love of Beatrice Portinari

Once you have understood that the world is love in action, you will look at it quite differently. — Nisargadatta Maharaj: I Am That

Romantic Love

Maternal Love

Platonic Love

Universal Love

Friendship

Rejection

DRN This cluster of cells, located near the back of the brain in an area called the dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN), is necessary for generating the increased sociability that normally occurs after a period of social isolation, the researchers found in a study of mice.

While much research has been done on how the brain seeks out and responds to rewarding social interactions, very little is known about how isolation and loneliness also motivate social behavior.

2007, See. Zeki, The neurobiology of love, https://febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1016/j.febslet.2007.03.094

Pinpointing loneliness in the brain Scientists identify cells that represent feelings of isolation.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office February 11, 2016 http://news.mit.edu/2016/neurons-loneliness-brain-0211