When we are close enough to someone that we feel a deep bond, we often call that love. When we feel a type of growing unity or a falling of barriers between ourselves and another, we often call that “falling in love.” We more fully appreciate someone’s beauty, and we find that we want to do more and more for them. The sages tell us that this love that we are feeling is in fact our fundamental nature, but it is sensed when we start to release our sense of division. Often, we do this (or this is done) for a select few in our lives, and when we find we can’t trust someone or they walk away from us that sense of division springs back and our sense of unity, of love, is diminished. However, our greatest spiritual teachers, like Christ, Rumi, and Krishna, invite us to release our general sense of division and our false idea of ourselves, uncovering our always fully present and natural love for others “as ourselves” in the process.