All the partitioning and uniting we see in nature is aimed at this. Whether it is propagation of the species, the love of the sexes, or mutual help and service of one species to another, we see that the first principle is not the struggle for existence. On the contrary, it is the will to community, the primary relationship of interdependence, the innermost connection with one another, the help to one another, the unity of all consciousness, the unifying of all living things, the love of all living things for one another. Life in nature reveals that love is the essence of life. All the splendor of color and harmony, all rhythm has its high point in love.
Love is the heartbeat of life.
It is born out of the fullness of life, its exuberance and joy, and is begotten in strength. It is the superabundance of life, and only that life is living which is capable of exuberance. That life is love which has within it overflowing life. Love is the spirit's rejoicing in what is real. This power of unfolding life in love is the highest activity, the supreme joy in creating, the creative power in the unfolding of all energies.