Mystic Love is the love that says "no matter our superficial differences, we are in essence the same." To experience mystic love is to experience oneness- with a plant, a person, an animal, a

Love of difference is love of not-self. This is the love that says, "I love you for you," not, "I love you for how you might be like me." In our age of self-obsession, love of difference

"I love everybody." I've heard a lot of people say this, and while I appreciate the sentiment, the skeptic in me wonders: what does that really mean? Does this love extend to strangers? To the

Love. We all know it when we feel it. But what is love, exactly? When I was 15, I asked Lisa, a dear family friend and mentor, what she thought love was. She said, "love is how much you are willing