Ashish Kothari argues that love is the fundamental law underlying everything. He distinguishes between romantic feeling and a deeper, unconditional commitment that permeates the universe, contrasting this with how culture typically romanticizes love.
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Love is the answer. And Gina, I need to bring her to life because we developed all this work together. So she always says, you know, if you forced me to say there was only one law, I'd say that this was the one law. Love is the answer no matter what the question is. Love is the answer to the question. And not love like a feeling. Again, our culture's version of love is like whatever Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, you know, whatever some like, that's not love. I mean, it's not not love. But that's not the kind of love we're talking. We're talking about the love that permeates the universe, the love that is a kind of enduring presence, the love that is a commitment to being here no matter what abiding and full and also not based on the conditions externally. And it's a choice and you choose love. That's why love is the answer.