You are misunderstanding the exact content of the terms ‘attachment’ and ‘love.’ When we come to depend upon things and beings for our sense of security and fullness, it becomes attachment; attachment shackles and makes us a prisoner. .
Love is an expansion of ourselves to embrace in our identification with things and beings; here we don’t need them for our fullness and therefore we are free. Love liberates our mind. Attachment compels us to be a slave to the world outside, and we feel shattered without those beings and things. .
The urgency of the mind to feel ‘I’ plus ‘I want’— meaning, when I feel that I cannot live without it — this becomes attachment. In short, ego + egocentric (selfish) desire = attachment. Please THINK.
