Truly boundless love, thoughts from the Buddha

"The Buddha spoke about four elements that constitute true love: the capacity to be kind and offer happiness,

maitri in Sanskrit, compassion, the capacity to relieve suffering, karuna; the capacity to bring joy every day, mudita; and finally, the capacity of nondiscrimination, upeksha. When there is true love, there is nondiscrimination. The pain of the other is our own pain; the happiness of the other is our own happiness...

To make our love meaningful, we need to nourish our bodhicitta, our mind of boundless love and compassion...

First, we learn to love one person with all our understanding and insight; then we expand that love to embrace another person, and another, until our love is truly boundless."

—Thich Nhat Hanh