If we want to experience love, we will by necessity experience pain. Of course we can limit our attachments, if we want to follow that path, but that has never been my way. I love love, relationships, caring for others and things, appreciating beauty, and mourning tragedy. I have no desire to be enlightened, because for me, so much of the joy of being alive is the burden of it. The work of living and loving and caring is what brings me satisfaction. Putting it all into balance.
