That modern, culturally bound idea or understanding of love needs to be touched and broadened by our religious tradition, by a spiritual understanding of love that sees love as creative and redemptive, that sees love in a ‘trans-personal’ way. Trans-personal doesn’t mean that it is impersonal; that would be a contradiction in terms; you can’t have an impersonal love. Love must be of the person, between persons, uniting persons; but it is trans-personal in the sense that it transcends, it isn’t limited by the individuality, the narrow egotistical individuality of those who are experiencing that love.
( Aspects of Love 1 by Laurence Freeman OSB )
