“The deepest love imaginable is love that arises from the deepest part of oneself. It is also the deepest part of oneself that is the most authentic part of oneself; the self that one mostly deeply identifies with. Thus, the deepest love imaginable results in an experience of fully internalizing that which is loved. This is not to say that the individual is fully absorbed into the object of love (as in deep empathy); rather, the object of love is fully absorbed into the individual. In this way, their remains space to hold that which is loved.

From this space there must arise only action & attitude that has the utmost care of the object of love as its supreme goal. The absence of these characteristics suggests that the individual does not fully love themself (for as previously asserted, the deepest love has the object of love as indistinguishable from the individual). In contrast, the presence of benevolent action and attitude fully qualifies the deepest love imaginable. It suggests that the individual seeks to confer & conserve the virtue they derive from their existence to the object of love, an effort that can only be sustained at this depth If one fully loves themself.”