While exploring the answer to this question I came across a definition in Wikipedia on-line:

Love:

Love is a profound feeling of tender affection for or intense attraction to another. It is considered a deep, ineffable feeling shared in passionate or intimate interpersonal relationships. However, in different contexts, the word love has a variety of related but distinct meanings: in addition to romantic love, which is characterized by a mix of emotional and sexual desire, other forms include Platonic love, religious love, familial love, and the more casual application of the term to anyone or anything that one considers strongly pleasurable, enjoyable, or desirable, including activities and foods.

Well, now I know that love is manifested in "a variety of related but distinct meanings". However, is love a choice? This inquiry was not answered in the quote above.

Maybe looking at the opposite of love will enlighten us. Fear, not hate is the opposite

love, and who is a better guide on the subject than Emmanuel. I want to share with you the clue to what I was looking for in this channeled pearl of wisdom:

The Choice For love -

What does the voice of fear

whisper in your ear?

Fear speaks to you

in logic and reason.

It assumes the language

of love itself.

Fear tells you,

"I want to make you safe."

Love says,

"You are safe"

Fear says,

"Give me symbols.

Give me frozen images.

Give me something

I can rely on."

Loving truth says,

"Only give me

this moment"

Fear would walk you

on a narrow path

promising to take you

where you want to go.

Love says,

"open your arms

and fly with me."

Every moment of your life

you are offered the opportunity

to choose -

love or fear,

to tread the earth

or to soar the heavens.

( Emmanule`s Book II)

Yes, for me love is a choice whenever I am confronted with fear,

since fear spells:

False Evidence Appearing Real

Raphael Wettenstein www.cafepress.com/ichooselove

About the Author

Was trained as a graphic designer, film maker, and is a certified hypnotist. Raphael has a background in education, advertising, media, and marketing. His life long interest is new age philosophy and ideas. R.W. lives in New York, and has four grown up children children.