when u really love someone and they really love you, you have desire but not in the sense of wanting things that you can't get or shouldn't want in the first place. its not even that your desire has been satisfied. its not satiety. you lie in that person's arms and you aren't thinking about whats next or whats wrong or what you want. you aren't trying to get someplace. rather than doing or proving for striving for something, you just like a big boulder thats really just there.

and again, its not that you've gotten what you desire and so are satisfied. its just that there is no doingness or provingness or strivingness. to my mind, this sounds a little like nirvana and i'd say you are emptied of ur self. the difference, maybe is that you aren't just emptied, you are also filled - but filled with one big thing that replaces all the ten million nettlesome, egotistical things that are inside you as a rule. and with that one thing comes a feeling of joy - not no feeling.

you are like a big boulder that somehow has levitated six feet off the ground. then there is one more thing, which is wanting to make the person you love happy, to give yourself to him or her, but this wanting is not a feeling external to love or the result of any incompleteness, it is one component of that big single thing.

and serving the person you love isn't something you 'do'. it is entirely natural. its guided by same part of your brain, whatever it is, that controls ur heartbeat.

"if you love someone, then you feel about them the way i've described and if that person shares that feeling and you are together, then that is the highest state of being, and the happiest."

- love in the air by james collins