As with everything human, love is richly varied and therefore complex. To truly love and to enrich our existence with a corresponding dignity, we must devote time and energy to reflecting on the meaning of authentic love, the demands it makes upon one, its relation to the highest sense of freedom, and the values each of us considers "ideal" for our lives.

To provide a solid basis for this crucial topic of love a brief but intensive ethical treatise is needed for the issue is distorted today by a thousand and one misunderstandings and prejudices. Mere sex information is insufficient. Rather a preparation is needed which will join the many forces latent in one’s person: the instinctive and the spiritual, the basic impulses and the great ideals which give life direction and meaning.

Learning in this complex and decisive matter cannot reasonably be left to chance, for it concerns the deepest commitment of each person. As educating means inspiring person with the high values, this book aims to show the importance and greatness of the highest of values: a love that is sacrificing, generous and altruistic. Due to certain interpretations which reduce love to mere eroticism, there is a need to clear the horizon so that the main outline of what presently is understood as human love in the foremost anthropological and ethical studies can be clearly seen.

All great values create a field of attraction drawing sensitive people who look therein. The task of the spiritual master or guide consists in suggesting how they can immerse themselves in this magnetic field. The rest is left to the values themselves – to their power of attraction. Every value must be fulfilled, for we are all called to take them on as criteria of our actions.

Like all true ethical works, this book is not intended to dictate actions, since its primary objective is to stimulate freedom in its readers. It aims merely to awaken the feeling produced upon encountering a high value, which lifts one to what is best within oneself, to the highest fulfillment and beauty.

This attempt to clarify the high value of human love and enable its proper understanding is integral to the educational movement entitled: School for Thought and Creativity and its dual goals, namely, to learn to think precisely about life and to live creatively at all levels.