"The transforming power of love, its ability to lift us out of our Selves and into a new relationship with another and the world, is related to love's cosmic character...Love is that allurement or law of attraction that binds the universe together. Bring to mind all the allurements filling the universe, of whatever complexity or order: the allurement we call gravitation, that of electromagnetic interactions, chemical attractors, allurements in the biological and human worlds. If we are able to snap our fingers and make these attractions disappear, the galaxies would break apart...galaxies, human families, atoms, ecosystems, all disintegrating immediately as the allurement pervading the universe is shut off."
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