Love. Everyone has a different definition of love. Is it true: "All you need is love"? Love is extremely important, but we also need faith, fun, joy, and celebration!
We cannot talk about love without talking about suffering, for both lead us to give up control. The buddha said that suffering is clinging. If we cling to something we take to be true, when Truth knocks on our door, we won't open it.
Richard Rohr in The Naked Now says that suffering is simply having the experience of something we cannot control. "Great love and great suffering are the tools to transition from a fear-based life to a love-based life." If we have great fear and we can't transform it, we end up transmitting it to others.
