If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? A commentary on ignorance

Love, ordinary love.

Semantically:

1. a strong positive emotion of regard and affection
2. any object of warm affection or devotion
3. a players game score when he / she has not yet won a point
3. have a great affection or liking for;
4. beloved: a beloved person; a term of endearment
5. a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction
6. to be enamored with;
7. sexual love: sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people
8. n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.
9. An American rock group of the 1960s and 1970s led by singer, songwriter and guitarist Arthur Lee (born March 7, 1945 in Memphis).
10.Love is the cohesive power of attraction throughout the universes.
11. a Primary Principle and a prime virtue, love is the feminine Mother aspect of God, nourishing and sustaining as the Substance of which everything is created.
12. thin silk used for ribbons, with narrow satin stripes.
13. The unifying agent of universal design, which is based upon the Intent of best benefit to all, as well as high vibrational states.
14. That inherent quality of existence whose depth of feeling liberates and inspires spiritual revelation
15.Is the most profoundly integrated state in the universe. It is simultaneously the highest, deepest and most powerful state of consciousness


Physiologically:

Humans, particularly males, are visually oriented, and sights that please us cause what is known as "pupillary dilation" (your pupils dilate when you see something you like). The parasympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system which mediates sexual arousal, induces such responses as pupillary dilation. When two people look at each other at the same moment, and both sets of pupils dilate, the result is what some people refer to as "love at first sight." We're reacting to the reaction of the other person, as well as to our own reaction to them.
Humans, particularly females, react strongly to the sense of touch. The outer covering of skin is our body's largest "part." Skin makes up about 15% of the body's weight, and occupies some 21 square feet of surface area. Being touched by someone lowers blood pressure, releases endorphins (the brain's equivalent of opium), and causes many other strongly positive reactions. One report of touch deprived women revealed that only a tiny percent had ever had an orgasm.
Taken together, all of these responses lead to sexual attraction, which affects our emotions, which many people translate as "love."
Yet, humans, besides being rather sophisticated members of the animal kingdom, are also rational and rationalizing beings. True, at times our emotions can completely eliminate rational thought, but most people can, with a bit of practice, overrule their emotions and make rational decisions.


Philosophically:

...Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom...

~Wm. Shakespeare, SONNET 116

"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired"

~Elizabeth Taylor

Love is the answer - but while you're waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty
good questions."

~Woody Allen.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

~1 Corinthians 13 NIV

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

~Joan Crawford

Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

~Matt Groening, Love is Hell

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

~D. H. Lawrence

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

~H. L. Mencken

Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


Whatever:


but no one can ever prove
the tides of love and how they move
across the face of barren hearts
the souls, the lives it tears apart
the pits of hell, the gates of heaven
I saw them all, eleven/eleven
--and eleven bore
the years they taught me a little more:
Love is the sustenance of existence.

And in the end:

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius