Scratch all the conventional meanings given to the word, love. Love is seeing yourself, others and your world exactly the same way you see source. By not paying attention to source, people do not see source clearly and therefore, do not see themselves, others or their world clearly. If one pays attention to source to the extent that they see source clearly, then they will see everything clearly. By the time this transformation takes place, they will be paying attention to source continuously, and therefore, everything they see will be seen according to their thus-renewed vision. To love source (which some call God) is to pay attention to source wholly wherein you see source clearly for what it is and know as you are known. To love yourself is the same, for the only vision of source you will ever have is through the place within yourself where you are right now. In that sense, you are quite literally one with source. To see the unconditional love that source gives you as your life and as understanding and much more, and then to see that you are literally made of the substance that source is, you begin to see yourself as a light expression of unconditional love (even though appearances and your seeming condition may say something else is true...it is not). As you begin to love yourself, not in the sense of having wonderful feelings about yourself, but in the sense of seeing yourself as you are, literally part of this love-light, you find yourself with another option when looking at someone else. You can look at them as you always have, as a collection of historical events wherein they did this or that and failed to do this or that, as a person who made you feel good or bad...or...you can pay attention to source and see them also as part of that love-light. Similarly, you can look at the world around you that is seeming to decay and be filled with deteriorating environment, violence, sickness and death...your old view...or...you can pay attention to the light and see it also as part of that love-light. Of course, until your mind is completely renewed, there will always be the old view to tempt your belief into argument with the view the light proffers. The point is that now you begin to see there is another way of looking at all this.  A confidence begins to build within you that, eventually, your newfound view will replace the old view altogether. Your hope in this is built upon something that didn't require believing someone else's words and upon something that is uniquely yours (while at the same time, universally everyone else's). Since we are all made out of this same love-light substance, we are, in a very literal sense, one being expressed as many individuations within itself and within each individual.

In summary, in the most pure sense, love is seeing the unconditional love substance that shines to you as what you are, paying attention to it and re-radiating that life-giving substance. It is looking to the light for your view of everything and everyone instead of looking outward at the appearances and judging them to be something different than perfect. When you would love someone, you must first know them as they truly are in the light, and act toward them according to the report the light gives of them rather than according to the report that appearances would have you believe.  Looking at someone through the light is knowing them as they are; whereas, looking at them primarily through the senses results in erroneously believing them to be otherwise. One way is knowing while the other way is believing (judging). In short, to love is to know.