Interestingly the word love only appears occasionally in the transcripts. When it appears, Elias mostly clarifies or redefines how he understands the term. According to him, love is often confused with affection, but essentially it is a sense of knowing and appreciation.
**Session #1861**:
ELIAS: Correct, and also as I have expressed previously, the definition of love is not associated with emotion. Love is a genuine expression of knowing and appreciation. You attach affection to love and many times you equate or define affection as love, but that is not a genuine expression of love. Love is genuinely a knowing and appreciation.
**Session #9999:**
ELIAS: The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog …