Is love an emotional or a rational state of mind?
I think that love is an emotional and a rational state of mind. Love is an emotional thing. In most cases a vacuity of emotions will result in the aridity of love.
But people do need rational love. Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule. One of the main characters in "True Love", Ping, made a rational choice, preferred a little less loved, and paid more love for her husband. Love means responsibility, Ping thought.
The increasing probably poverty and crime tell us that the world is in indispensable need of true love. But what is true love?
True love is best seen as the promotion and action, not an emotion. An ancient Hebraic text says: love is as strong as death. True love is when you care enough about another person that you will lay down your life for him. When this happens, then love truly is as strong as death.
If you were a tear-drop
In my eye
For fear of losing you
I would never cry
And if the golden sun
Should cease to shine its light
Just one smile from you
Would make my whole world bright