To meditate is to become a student of love. We come to be able to see how deeply love is at the centre of every activity; how it is the wavelength of every communication; how love is the background radiation, the background energy of everything we are and everything we do. It is the ultimate meaning of all our experience. Because love is our deepest human need, we seek it. But because it can so often lead us to pain, we also fear it, because it is so closely associated with the loss of our familiar sense of identity.
(Aspects of Love 1 by Laurence Freeman OSB )
