Complete works. Vol. 15. Love and sexuality. Vol. 2

'There are several possible attitudes towards love. You can eat it, you can drink it, and you can breathe it, but you can also live in it.

Those who eat love remain on the physical plane and are never fully satisfied because they are content with pleasures of a lower order. The pleasures of those who drink love are less crude, but they are still confined to the delights and satisfactions of the astral plane. Certain philosophers, writers and artists, who have managed to reach the mental plane, breathe love; love is the constant source of their inspiration. Only those who live in love, in the subtle, etheric dimension of love, truly possess it. For them it is light in the mind and warmth in the heart, and they can pour out that light and warmth on those around them. Those who live in this love possess all fullness.'

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov