Love: emotion or fuel?
In all spiritual traditions, love is considered the main developmental force, but we often confuse the true state with ordinary affection or the desire to possess.
In the first stages, this feeling is always associated with expectation: in passion we long for pleasure, and in care we subconsciously expect gratitude or mutual warmth for our good deeds. Here lies the main trap, because when the world does not return, our inspiration immediately gives way to resentment and burnout.
The real goal is not to find the perfect person or to "do good" to the whole world. The secret is to become the source of love yourself.
Indian lotus.