When two people come together in love, they weave a fabric of consciousness. If the fabric is strong, then both lovers have made it so; each loving thought and action is a thread added to the fabric. In Sanskrit the word for "thread" is Sutra, which also has a metaphysical meaning. A sutra is an aphorism or formula that expresses some fundamental truth about consciousness. When Rumi says, "Love is the sea where intellect drowns," he is uttering a sutra. It expresses a truth from his level of awareness, and at the same time it weaves truth by adding a thread no one else has added before.
— Deepak Chopra, The Path to Love