Love can feel like the greatest pain of all. In the passage below, Roland Barthes describes love at first sight as something always spoken of in the past tense.
“Love at first sight is always spoken in the past tense. The scene is perfectly adapted to this temporal phenomenon: distinct, abrupt, framed, it is already a memory […] “for a certain time, though a finite one, a deranged interval, something has been successful: I have been fulfilled: all my desires abolished by the plenitude of their satisfaction.” Roland Barthes
Even though love can be painful, it comes in a variety of flavors, as our life experience can attest. Beneath whatever form love takes on the surface of our human existence, it’s the unshakeable, unconditional form of this feeling that many of us are after. Mindfulness exercises for love and compassion can help us reconnect with the love that rests at the core of each of us. We’ve put together 8 of them: you can jump straight to the 8 mindfulness exercises for love and compassion right away.
