How to Love (Mindful Essentials)

In the practice of compassionate listening, you listen with only one purpose: to give the other person a chance to speak out and suffer less.

If you can learn from your mistakes, then you have already transformed garbage into flowers.

Our individual consciousness is influenced by the collective consciousness of our environment. We absorb and reflect what is around us.

When you love someone, you should have the capacity to bring relief and help him to suffer less.

There’s also the deep thirst to be loved and to love. We are ready to love and be loved. It’s very natural. But because we feel empty, we try to find an object of our love.

Practicing to realize nondiscrimination, to see the interconnectedness and impermanence of all things, and to share this wisdom with others, we are giving the gift of nonfear. Everything is impermanent. This moment passes. That person walks away. Happiness is still possible.

Reverence is the nature of our love.

The practices of breathing, walking, concentration, and understanding can help you greatly in dealing with your emotions, in listening to and embracing your suffering, and in helping you to recognize and embrace the suffering of another person.

In true love there is no place for pride.

The roots of a lasting relationship are mindfulness, deep listening and loving speech, and a strong community to support you.