Loving Action

My experience is that actions motivated by love are honest and always increase the integrity of the universe.  By “love”, I mean an intense desire and willingness to devote oneself to someone else’s emotional and spiritual growth, with little or no thought to the personal cost of the action.  To me, actions motivated by love “feel right”, meaning they have the feeling of a clear mountain stream as opposed to the feelings around self-motivated or self-centered actions, which are more like the feeling of a turbid lake.  This includes actions that cause some short-term discomfort in the recipient and long-term growth, saying or doing difficult things, like speaking the truth to a child.