Passion becomes compassion when we bring it into the path, when we recognise every moment as a possibility of awakening. Love and sexual consummation can be like the tip of the iceberg of divine love, an ecstatic intimation of eternity, a portal to infinite depths of the groundlessness and boundarylessness that transports us beyond our limited, egoistic selves.

People ask me how to find a soul mate. Rather than focusing on past or finding the perfect mate, we should work on improving ourselves. Make yourself the “perfect” mate and you will be a good mate with almost anyone. When your heart is pure, your life and the entire world are pure.

We all feel the desire to possess and be possessed, to love and be loved, to connect and be embraced and to belong. However, I think that the most important thing in being together is the tenderness of a good heart. If our relationships aren’t nurturing the growth and development of goodness of heart, generosity, and intimate connection, they are not serving us or furthering a better world.

To truly love people I need to let them be, and to love and accept and appreciate them as they are and not as how I would like them to be. This is equally true for loving and accepting oneself. Staying present in this very moment, through mindful awareness and paying attention to what is — rather than dwelling on the past or the future — helps free me from excess baggage, anxiety and neurosis and opens me to love. — Beliefnet.com (concluded)