What's love got to do with it?

I mentioned something on Facebook yesterday that I will talk about today.   I said that by living in love and gratitude, we open to the cultivation and growth of further gifts of the cosmos.  The good feeling engendered by living in loving kindness always inspires one to further  acts of loving kindness because automatically we will feel happiness engendered by our goodwill.  This happiness is contagious.  Other people respond kindly, more often than not to kindness.  This in turn frees us to be more kind, loving, and happy.  When we recollect our good circumstances and are grateful we also tend to be happy with our own lives and a little less drawn by desires for more or other.  We then too become a little freer and fulfulled, content that our lives are not unmitigated sorrow and lost in desiring things.  Love and gratitude set in motion the mechanism of freeing ourselves from the tyranny of suffering and desire and not only frees us but allows for those around us to be freed as well.