'Love' and 'Peace of Mind/Heart' are synonymous with each other.
This because peace of mind is the end of the capacity to blame&hate, feel guilt&shame, or be proud&arrogant. 

Focussing on improve your capacity to love without first improving your capacity to be at peace is like building a sandcastle on the waters edge.

Love is not something we receive from others, it's that inside, which when free, responds only one way to others.

Peace for now

...and life undoes it.

Three weeks ago a brave, ambitious group of life trekkers embarked on a 21 day live-in retreat with me in the Perth Hills. 

Today we all leave different people.

15 participants from around the globe gathered to further what could easily be seen as the most valuable project a person could undertake - a project of better understanding inter-human relationships and the nature of life and Self, with a focus on peace and happiness in daily living.

We had a great time; dived deep, changed our minds, changed them again, made friends and trod where few dare to go.

It was an honour. Namaste

Thinking slows down only after the topic of thinking has been given much thought.

self images are very fragile

Your essence on the other hand, is the most robust thing in the universe.

The implication of the notion of non-doership is that life is truly magical.

Let's not forget that this quest in the end is about peace of mind in daily living.

Close your eyes, sit silently for a few minutes, then focus attention onto what you call the back of your eyelids.

Notice that attention here opens the door into a vast timeless, boundary free dimension that engulfs you peacefully. Enter anytime. 

Feel free to leave your thoughts at the door, only you are invited. And if any follow you in, you don't need to talk back to them.

When seen for what LIFE essentially is, even the floating past of an apple, should it happen, would be fathomable - surprising yet fathomable. 

Fathomable, would be the presence of extreme pleasure, the presence of extreme pain, and everything in-between. 

Fathomable, would be the presence of suffering (surprising yet fathomable), its absence, and everything inbetween. 

Fathomable, would be the floating past of an apple - surprising yet fathomable.

At some point, a dinosaur body was the most complex vehicle through which the single Consciousness of Source was functioning - Consciousness experiencing life from the perspective of a dinosaur.

Today, the most complex vehicle through which Consciousness functions is your body.

God becoming you.

Don't just think about it, BE IT.

Peace.

'Your happiness is not to be found in pleasure and isn't lost because of pain'

When the above concept truly truly penetrates, you'll laugh (or maybe cry) at how long it's been since you thought you'd understood this, and yet, in practice, believed the complete opposite. 

You'll marvel at how this could possibly happen given the countless times this point has been hammered home in so many different wisdom teachings; and each time you nodding in agreement with it. 

Hint: love, appreciation, acceptance, recognition, approval, validation, success, winning, consideration, politeness are all forms of pleasure and their opposites are pain.