Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts

With true love, you feel complete in yourself; you don’t need something from outside.

Inside each of us is a great being, someone peaceful, full of light, understanding, and compassion. This person carries a sword of understanding that cuts through the bonds of suffering. With great understanding, we see the way out of our bondage. We discover the lightness and compassion necessary to love someone else. We can awaken this great pers

Blinded by attachment, sooner or later we fall into sensual love. Anxiety mounts day by day, just as water fills a pond drop by drop.

We are all motivated by love. Love can be our greatest joy or—when it gets confused with craving and attachment—our greatest suffering.

Both people have to heal on their own so they feel at ease in themselves; then they can become a home for each other. Otherwise, all that we share in physical intimacy is our loneliness and suffering.

When we’re trapped by sensual love, we spend our time worrying that the other person will leave or betray us.

Otherwise, the union of two bodies becomes very monotonous after a time. Even when we’re with our partner, we continue to have the feeling of being alone. So we look for another person to be with.

Our feeling leads to a perception.

When we see a form or hear a sound, we recognize it and we have a feeling and a perception about it.