seriously. There are many definitions, but from an enlightened perspective, what is the significance, the meaning, of Love? I'd be interested in your opinions.

Relative love is giving value to something that is separate in reality from you and some kind of exchange in value and attachment in feeling.

From an enlightened perspective where everything is part of you then love would be the fullness/ultimate goodness or bliss within that you are spilling outward into creation. Everything that is good inside of you would be given equally to everything.

I like that description.

To love means
to run into the depth of the yard
and till the rook-black night
chop the wood with a shining axe,
giving full play to one`s strength...
To love is
to break away from bedsheets,
torn by insomnia,
jealous of Copernicus,
because he,
rather than Maria`s husband,
is a true rival...
Love is not a paradise of arbors,
Love tells us
that the stalled motor of the heart
is running full-strength again.
Love will always hum,
human and simple,
Hurricane,
fire,
water
surge forward, rumbling,
Who can control this ?
You ?
Try it...

Vladimir Mayakovsky

My soul open wide,
my heart nearly on the surface,
I unfold myself to the sun and puddles--
Enter me with your passions,
Climb in with your loves !
I know where is heart in others,
in the breast, as everyone knows,
but with me
anatomy has gone mad:
nothing but heart
roars everywhere !

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Hmm, from an enlightened perspective love is a sense of connection and caring for all things in existence. It is a sense that everything is connected and a deep sense of affection for all things in nature. You go beyond loving only a few things and move forward to loving all things in their own special way.

or un-special way.

My Teacher used to quote an enlightened master as saying, "I love all of you, and none of you at all."

"Until love has quickened a soul, it is like an unfledged bird" Rumi

Enough of phrases and conceit and metaphors...
I want burning, burning !
Rumi

DARVISH

A sovereign spirit who fulfills divine will
A King in beggar`s clothes
whose heart in Heaven, though on Earth His feet
New Sun arises wherever He casts His glance
How so much perfection can one hold ?
How so much divine LOVE ?

THE JOY d`AMOR

My fate is sealed
My choice is made
And I will follow the laws of love
Once I have drunk the potion of love
And entered the endura path...
Oh, Lady of my Thoughts !
Oh, my Senhal !
My boat is cast adrift
in mystic sea of Love
By You alone shall I be saved
And brought into Eternal Life and Light !

Well said. It is my love for life in all her forms that propells me to dream for a more perfect one.