A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
Tout le sang qui coule rouge; All blood is red.
When a chap is in love, he will go out in all kinds of weather to keep an appointment with his beloved. Love can be demanding, in fact more demanding than law. It has its own imperatives - think of a mother sitting by the bedside of a sick child through the night, impelled only by love. Nothing is too much trouble for love.
Once you have established yourself as a center of love and kindness radiating throughout your being, which amounts to a cradling of yourself in loving kindness and acceptance, you can dwell here indefinitely, drinking at this fount, bathing it in, renewing yourself, nourishing yourself, enlivening yourself. This can be a profoundly healing practice for body and soul.
You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.
I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay, a big stack of bills that gets bigger each day.