Everything that you do – you only see if it’s been good and right when you view it from the perspective of love. We have to get to the vantage of love first, before we start evaluating and checking.
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Tolstoy. He’s like us: a lay practitioner convinced that even ordinary life, married or single, with work, with family, with friends, has the capacity to yield a boundless wellbeing. Such a thing is already hidden within our lives. And the task of his protagonists (Pierre, Natasha, Lev) is to find it.