As one views "romance" from a historical perspective, at least in the western world, it is different from Deepak's view. Take the great western love stories such as Romeo and Juliet or Guinivere and Sir Lancelot and etc. Romance is the desire for sex but not able to have it. It really has nothing to do with true love.
Love is best defined as doing what is best for the spiritual growth of the object of that love.

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Kimberly that is So nice. My mother used to always give us valentine's day gifts and I and my sister talk about how wonderful she made us feel. It's good that you know how truly you are blessed and it does me good to read your example.

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My first husband fit as well as what Uma explains. It is amazing how much better things go when you are with someone deserving of your love and who loves you equally. Love isn't meant to destroy the person you are and turn you into something you are not. It is meant to compliment you and work with you. Compromise does not equal consumption. I also think romance is an important part of love, not just with your significant other. There should be romance in your love for your siblings, parents, children. Perhaps, I think of romance differently but to me it is taking a moment to express your love. So often we get caught up in our day-to-day that we forget to show others we care. The ones we love are often at the bottom of our "to do list". A little romance allows us to express just how important they are in our lives. I don't mean elaborate and expensive schemes on Valentine's or Mother's Day. I would rather have been brought home a mangled flower tip (they never seem to include a stalk) from one of my children simply because it reminded them of me. My husband and I take turns hiding this silly, plastic dinosaur for each other to find. Every time I find it I am reminded how deep my love is. To me that is romantic and it is something people in love do. I also make a point of telling the people I love that I love them every single day that I breathe-a day will come when I cannot.

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I have come to view romance as the door to hell and to dislike anything to do with it.The door that is opened does not necessarily lead to happiness. Truly, it does commit one to lessons that are of Spirit, lessons we might never have the courage to undertake without that sweet attraction, but the lessons our high self wants us to learn are by no means guaranteed to be pleasant. The bitter costly lesson of unconditional love is one that's perhaps more pleasantly learned with family and children, but the nature of "unconditional" means that not so pleasant baggage is likely attached ; spiritually this is beyond price in value,romantically it's an experience that leaves one seared to the bone.Romance: I find myself reacting to the word like an old horror movie ;squeaking in terror,stumbling backwards with my fore-fingers held before me crossed in the classic, useless, anti-vampire position. If blessed by the high-self to be allowed to experience it to the full spiritual potential, and the lessons that mortality insures be considered enough for this growth/drama experience, consider yourselves blessed.The prize of union with the beloved and the challenge to maintain individuality simultaneously, so that no one is swallowed and digested and both can remain whole to continue the ecstatic joining, is maybe the greatest of life's possible gifts and is certainly not a given that everyone can experience by any means.As we used to say,"it just doesn't come with the plumbing".

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Love without devotion
can never be true
you can show devotion
by the "little things" you do.

-A song from the 60's.-

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I Love
Therefore I am

I am one with the Universe
I am one with God
I am Love

Like the ever expanding Universe
My Love is boundless
My Love is eternal

I am Love

RK

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You have to love,
before you can give.
You have to give,
in oreder to live.
Living your life and
loving it too;
the longer you live,
the more you can do.
P.E.A.C.E.
Salaam
Shalom
McBud
" A common bond of perception; means an uncommon bond of reception."
Just another Bud-Ism

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