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The Lovers by Angie Castillo. From the collection, Love is Yellow.

Why do people fall in love?

Lately, I’ve had love on my mind a lot, everyone has a different love perspective, even me, as an artist I have been painting this shape of love. Picturing a couple that has deeply fall in love without limits, culture, or gender differences. Bob Marley once said that “We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems — the ones that make you truly who you are — that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: it’s got to be the right wrong person — someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.”

Likes attract likes. You attract to yourself reflections of that which you are.

This is one of the laws of consciousness, “like goes to like”. Whereas bitterness attracts bitterness, love attracts love. As the spiritual teacher, David R. Hawkins once wrote, “Everything you see happening is the consequence of that which you are.”

Love is a really abstract, wide, and subjective topic. No one really knows what it is but everyone wants to feel it.