Being in love means being intimate, being intimate requires being vulnerable, and, with vulnerability comes the risk of being hurt. For some people that risk is just too much, and so they close off their hearts and keep themselves from being known. They make a conscious (or unconscious) decision not to love. And then there are those of us who choose to love, choose to be vulnerable, choose to take the risk, and sometimes get hurt. We pick ourselves back up, and we love again, with all of the messiness, with all of the uncertainty, and with all of the fear, so that we can experience the joy, so that we can experience the happiness and bliss of a deep heart connection with others. So this meditation is for all of us, that are either in love, searching for love, fearful of love, or in need of love.