Love has no labels, no definitions.
It is what it is, pure and simple.
Love is the Water of Life.
And a Lover is a Soul of Fire.
The Universe turns differently when Fire Loves Water.
~ Rumi's Sun: The Teachings of Shams of Tabriz ~ 
Ram Dass speaks about the soul being like a step on the ladder that you are later going to throw away. Soul Identity is the process of realizing that you and I exist on more than one plane of awareness simultaneously. On one plane suffering stinks and on another plane suffering is grace.
We feel this in the loss and grief for a beloved, whether it is a person, thing or situation. However much love we invested affects how much we feel the absence when what is so loved is lost.
