Your task is not to seek for love but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Jalaluddin Rumi, Persian poet (1207-1273)
“I love this poem because it really speaks to my own experience. The more I’ve used meditation practices that cultivate the heart the more I feel that love being opened within myself and that wellspring of love within myself. I feel it filling my being and being able to go out to others which has brought me such joy. Feeling that love from the inside out is truly what is fulfilling. Many times we’re looking for it outside but it’s the love that springs from within that fills us and that is what is really deeply reliable and deeply accessible all the time.”
Lama Palden Drolma, spiritual teacher of Buddhism and author of
Love on Every Breath: Meditation for Transforming Pain Into Joy
