"What's Love got to do with it?"
Pretty much everything!
Ram Dass on the role of love:
“This love is actually part of you; it is always flowing through you. It’s like the subatomic texture of the universe, the dark matter that connects everything. When you tune in to that flow, you will feel it in your own heart — not your physical heart or your emotional heart, but your spiritual heart, the place you point to in your chest when you say, ‘I am.’ ”
Jack Kornfield:
"To become mindful … present … is really the invitation to work with the joys and the sorrows of the world, and to do so with this gift, this capacity of loving awareness, of attention that actually can be present for the whole dance."
Too many of us, too often behave like cavemen, because we fear exposing our hearts. This is tragic. See: http://mindfulnessforeveryone.blogspot.ca/2014/02/492-mindfulness-practice-real-world.html
The more fully and continuously we embody the wise loving-kindness that is our core nature, the more authentic and worthwhile our lives become.
Rabia al Basri:
"I was born when all I once feared
I could love.”
John Welwood wrote a terrific little book on love. Here's a bit of it:
