It is possible to turn our attention towards our own inner space and ask, What can I contribute?, What can I add?, How can I enrich others? If the process is only to ask, What can I get out of it? then it is driven by lust. If the process asks, How can I enrich it? it is driven by love! lust is an energy that demands. Love is an energy that gives. Love is an intense experience in one's inner space. Many of us think love is a choice. We think experience and expression of love is a choice. We think that if we want to, we can handle love; otherwise we can let it go. No! It is not a choice as we think.

It is a basic necessity of life. When I say life, I don't mean just breathing and staying alive. I mean being alive at the innermost being level, as a live Consciousness. If you can express love, if you can experience love, that is the only way of being alive as a Consciousness. If you don't experience and express love, you may inhale and exhale, but you can't say you are a live being. There are so many animals, plants and other things that breathe day in and day out. You will continue to exist like them, that's all. A small story: A disciple asked a Zen* master, Does an enlightened master speak? Zen - Japanese Buddhist practice. Derived from dhyana, meditation. If you try to create love, it will be like The master forcing open the said, No, an petals of a flower enlightened to make it bloom.

person never speaks. Only a person who doesn't know enlightenment speaks.