Take a look in a dictionary, and you will find love defined as ‘intense aection’, ‘romance’, ‘adoration’, ‘strong attachment’, and ‘personal attraction’. What we often don’t realise is that we can choose to redefine love as a verb, not only a noun and it is something we can cultivate by being more connected to our experiences in our lives, moment to moment. So how do we do that?
1 Think of love, not as something in the hands of someone else to deliver unto us, or to take away from us. Certainly, other people may enliven and enrich our sense of love, others may threaten it… but the capacity resides within us. It is ours, says Salzberg.