Love: An Act of will or an act of the heart?

“Love makes wonders”. True, it can be said that one’s success in life is caused by love; but the opposite is also true. Because love has an element of madness poets tends to say: “There is no mountain so high that love cannot climb; no ocean so wide that love cannot cross; no sea so deep that love cannot fathom. All this because love conquers all”.
Yes, love I a strong force within man that drives man to make things that seem to be impossible possible. Nevertheless, the madness in love does not always drive man to do positive or constructive things. It also drives man to destroy what he loves. This contention is precisely affirmed by Oscar Wilde when he said that “every man kills the thing he loves; the coward does it with a kiss; the brave with a sword. In this light, love also means pain, and even death. The tragedy of love happens to Romeo and Juliet: to Evangeline and Gabriel; to Sohrab and Rustum; to King David and Bathsheba; to Cleopatra and Mark Anthony; to Samson and Delilah, among others.
Indeed, love is a dynamic principle of action. It serves as the fundamental characteristic of the human person’s being with others. As a passion or as an emotion, it can either be purely subjective, hence irrational, or it can be objective, hence rational. It is purely subjective and irrational when its beholder is enjoying himself in his being with his “beloved” who is just a tool in keeping him pleased with himself. On the contrary, love is objective and rational when it is really the other person that the lover loves and enjoys specifically as a person whose being and uniqueness are important in themselves. “The capacity of love, objectively, is what makes us persons…..love then is at…the core of our rational consciousness.”
A human person is guided by love to discover others as values. Through love man learns how to consider others as persons, as other “I’s” and not as means but ends in themselves. Through love, man is guided to act properly as a loving person.
According to the book entitled " The Human Person", basically, there are two kinds of love, viz: Agape and Eros. The former is the love of a person to others s a unique human person and as values in themselves; it exists in an I-Thou relationship; it is loving the whole man in the person. On the other hand, the latter means erotic love; the “I” loves others not as human person but as mere human beings.

So what do you think? Is love an act of will or an act of the heart? Indeed, for psychological aspects, love is the will brought about by the feelings of the heart. There is an existing correlation between these two concepts, yes, love exists in both situations. Love will always be an act of will because of the feelings of the heart. It's like the relation between the brain and the muscles in the body. Without the will of the mind, it will never be a movement of the body at all

To sum it all up, love cannot exist without the two aspects. It is both an act of will and an act of the heart.
P.S. Some contents in this article are based on facts, not mere opinions.