My understanding is that to love, we need to be able to totally surrender to the living/dying nature of this world.

I think of desire as the essence that brings forth the whole universe.

Meditation helps us gain the capacity to relax, to connect with what is going on right here and right now, to connect with other people, to re-access our resourcefulness, our clarity and our ability to focus and keep an open heart.

If you can, do a gratitude practice: Each day write down three things you're grateful for. There are different ways to do this. You can have a gratitude buddy, someone with whom, at the end of the day, you exchange messages listing these three things you are grateful for. Also, you can journal it or reflect on it silently.

We are waiting for the next moment to contain what this moment does not.

Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.

There are some things we can't choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them