"One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."
Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
The crazy thing about love is that it leaves you weightless. It gives you a feeling that you can fly through the air supported by nothing except the wind of love. How true that is. One of the world's greatest thinkers, Sophocles, understood it too. Love transports you and takes away your pain.
One woman took Sophocles literally and physically. Overweight for many years,
Listen to this TED lecture on romantic love. Helen Fisher and her research team took MRI's of people in love - and people who had just been dumped. But it you want to see what the weightless ness of love looks like, then I recommend Chagall's Birthday or Anniversary, as it is also known. The painting is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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