Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our difficulties.

It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can't close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.

Once we see that everything is impermanent and ungraspable and that we create a huge amount of suffering if we are attached to things staying the same, we realize that relaxing and letting go is a wiser way to live. Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring about them in a flexible and wise way.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?

In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is love.

Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do.