"We must differentiate between loving and being in love. To try to make definitions of these takes some courage.
Loving another person is seeing that person truly and appreciating him for what he actually is: his ordinariness, his failure and his magnificence. If one can ever cut through that fog of projections in which one lives so much of his life and can look truly at another person, that person, in his down-to-earth individuality is a magnificent creature. The trouble is that there are so many people, and we are so blinded by our own projections, we rarely see another clearly in all his depth and nobility. […] Loving is not illusory. It is not seeing the other person in a particular role or image we have designed for him. Loving is valuing another for his personal uniqueness within the context of the ordinary world. That is durable. It stands up. It is real.
Being in love is another matter. Being in love is an intrusion, for better or worse, of an archetypal, a superpersonal, or a divine world. Suddenly one sees in one’s beloved a god or a goddess; through him or her one sees into a superpersonal, superconscious realm of being. All this is highly explosive and inflammatory, a divine madness. The poets tell us about it in extravagant terms. If one watches people in love looking at each other, one knows perfectly well that they are looking through each other. Each is in love with an idea, or an ideal, or an emotion. They are in love with love.
The worst thing about being in love is that it is not durable; it doesn’t last. One day the bright vision of the beloved, which had previously danced with such beauty before one’s eyes, seems plain and dull. The transpersonal, godlike quality dims, and the personal, down-to-earth, ordinary man is revealed. This is one of the saddest and most painful experiences in life. The quality of being in love is a visitation of something divine. It is a god or a goddess on the face of the earth and does not fit at all well into human dimensions."

Robert A. Johnson: She – Understanding Feminine Psychology


I kind of agree with this quote, but what I'd add to it is that I believe glimpses of the divine can sometimes be seen even in mundane situations, this goes for people too. Loving one's failures or magnificence as a human being is to me almost the same as worshipping the divine that Johnson talks about in the section of "being in love", these are only different aspects of the divine.

What do you think about the quote, and what's your opinion on the matter?