From a mystical perspective, all forms of love are part of this magnetism, and mystics speak of love as the ultimate reality behind all other images of reality.

Communion with the Divine is part of all religious traditions. People in churches, synagogues, mosques and temples across America experience it through chanting and music and through ritual and worship in community. Though a mystery that is called by different names in various traditions, Jesuit William Johnston says they all point toward a single reality, a reality he, as a Christian, defines as “unrestricted love, unlimited love.” In the Inner Eye of Love, Johnston goes on to say that in this journey into mystical love, it is much more important to be open to receive love than to love; more important to be loved than to love.

Rabbi Alan Lew says, “In the Jewish world, the institution of marital love is seen as an instance of Divine love, and vice versa. Our wife, or our husband, or our partner, is the one through whom all must be loved. As we go through the daily process of reconnecting with our love for our spouse, every day, our heart opens and becomes able to take in more love, for more people in the world.”