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"It is rewarding to find someone you love,
but it is essential to love yourself.
It is quickening to recognize that someone is a good and decent human being,
But it is indispensable to view yourself as acceptable.
It is a delight to discover people who are worthy of respect and admiration and love,
But it is vital to believe yourself deserving of these things.
For you cannot live in someone else.
You cannot find yourself in someone else.
You cannot be given a life by someone else.
Of all the people you will know in a lifetime,
You are the only one you will never leave or lose.
To the question of your life, you are the only answer.
To the problems of your life, you are the only solution."

As part of the research for writing this session, when typing “love” into a search engine on the
internet, it brought 18,980,000,000 results. There is an enormous amount of material available
out there about love, a lot of it contradictory. Quite possibly, there is more written about this sub-
ject than any other on the planet. With all that information at our disposal you would be forgiv-
en for thinking that by this stage of our human development, we would have conquered
the mysteries of love.

Thankfully that will never happen and it is the very fact that love remains a mystery to most of us,
that gives love its eternal appeal.

Having spent many years studying the experience of happiness, the information gathered,
ran into tens of thousands of pages of notes and research, enough to write a least one book on
each of the chapters. Love was by far and away the most fascinating and infinite sub-
ject of them all.

Everything you will ever read about happiness and the meaning of life has its basis in love. Love
colours every other area of your life. The degree to which you embrace and give love in your life
will determine the levels of happiness you will experience. For that reason, I make no apology
that this session on love is the most comprehensive in the course.

The ancient Greeks studied love and classified them into eight different types.

They studied everything from public speaking to the stars in the universe. Love is something they
were absolutely fascinated with. Let’s take a look at the different types of love so you can better
understand your own relationships.