" Love doesn't exist, in that you can't objectify it and grasp it. But what it does, it calls everything into existence. Whenever you see someone you love, they are called out from the background. You see thousands of people every day, but when you see someone you love, they are called forth from that pulsating void.
Love is not sublime and beautiful. Love is that which says the person in front of you is sublime and beautiful, or the world is sublime and beautiful. And love is not meaningful, love is what brings meaning into the world. So that when you love you cannot help but experience the world as meaningful, even if you believe it is not. Whereas if you don't love, you can't help but think the world is meaningless, even if you believe it is meaningful.
The contrast with the idol is: love does not exist until you let it go. Then you experience it as a pre-eminently existing thing. And this is a metaphor for God of course - God does not exist when we try to go at God as existing; God is not sublime when we try to say God is sublime; God is not meaningful when we try to make God a meaningful thing. But the paradox is, as soon as we let go of all these things and embrace life, we find that God is the pre-eminently existing, sublime and meaningful being in the universe."
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