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Generous love, the glue that holds everything together in a healthy relationship, aims for shared happiness through the fulfillment of one’s partner.

— Lama Ole Nydahl Buddha & Love: Timeless Wisdom for Modern Relationships (2012)

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Buddha’s advice helps beings by showing how one may consciously become a source of happiness and love.

Buddha & Love: Timeless Wisdom for Modern Relationships (2012)

The understanding that truth is not neutral, but is instead blissful, is something only meditators and lovers trust.

Buddha & Love: Timeless Wisdom for Modern Relationships (2012)

Enlightenment is not only timeless but also more beautiful, truer, and more indestructible than anything separable or conditioned. There is no greater happiness than the full development of mind!

Fearless Death: Buddhist Wisdom on the Art of Dying (2012)

If one understands that the only thing that remains timeless is the richness of one’s own buddha nature, one can relax even with regard to death.

Fearless Death: Buddhist Wisdom on the Art of Dying (2012)

The 'taking love' leads to feelings of attachment, jealousy, anger, and childish self-absorption, while the 'giving love,' intrinsic in the tenets of Buddhism, encompasses the whole enjoyable realm of love, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.

Buddha & Love: Timeless Wisdom for Modern Relationships (2012)

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
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