The Longing for Love

The longing for love and the movement of love is underneath all of our activities. The happiness we discover in life is not about possessing or owning or even understanding. Instead, it is the discovery of this capacity to love, to have a loving, free, and wise relationship with all of life. Such love is not possessive but arises out of a sense of our own well-being and connection with everything. Therefore, it is generous and wakeful,and it loves the freedom of all things. Out of love, our path can lead us to learn to use our gifts to heal and serve, ato create peace around us, to honor the sacred in life, to bless whatever we encounter, and to wish all beings well.

Jack Kornfield
from A Path with Heart
Chapter: Did I Love Well?