“You can fall in love with beauty, but you can only love the soul.” This phrase is as accurate as an arrow. Because love is not a flash. It’s a fire that burns for a long time. And for it to burn, it needs depth.
Falling in love: a flash, a spark, magic
Falling in love is chemistry, it’s an explosion. It’s blind, emotional, and almost always idealizing. We don’t see a person, but their image: beautiful, bright, attractive.
Beauty is like the cover of a book. It can attract attention, make you open the first page. But if it’s empty inside, you won’t want to read it.
Love: calm, acceptance, real
True love is not always "at first sight". It often comes more quietly - through conversations until the night, through mutual respect, through moments of support, when no one but him (or her) wants to call. Love is when you know a person from the inside and still choose him (or her).
We do not love appearance - we love the view of the world. We love how a person can be himself, how he can be silent, laugh, understand, be close. The soul attracts deeper and more reliably than the face or figure.
Why is this important?
Beauty passes. The soul remains.
The body ages. Character and warmth are only just revealed.
Ideals are destroyed. True acceptance - no.
How do you know that this is love?
You do not want to look, but to listen. You admire not the external, but the internal.
You do not just want to be close - it is important to you that the person is well.
You see flaws - and do not run away.
Let beauty light the spark,
but let the soul fan the fire.
And if you have loved the soul,
you have truly loved.