A guided expansion in intensity, frequency, duration, and inclusion.
How can we learn more love? At least four ways: by increasing the intensity, frequency, and duration of the emotion, as well as by including more unwitting subjects. One day, frequency and duration may combine to form all of the time. Here is one way to begin.
Start by imagining all the love by and for your parents. The slower the contemplation of each of these things, the better. Then add to that the love you have had for any pets that have shared your life, and hold that thought for a while before adding all affection for friendships along the way.
Now add to this already immense feeling all your romantic loves, from your first puppy love until your current, and thereby greatest, love. Then add all the love for any children. Express and impress these feelings for a while. While maintaining that thought, add all the love you have ever felt for all of mankind, and all the love you have ever felt for God.
Overwhelming? There is more.
Now try genuinely loving everyone within a room, or on a bus, then everyone in the city or town, the overall region, the state or province, the country, the continent, and the entire planet. Then contemplate what the loves of those people have been.
Imagine all the love that has ever been felt by human beings. How long can this thought be sustained? A minute? Two minutes? Fifteen? An hour? A day? Now add all the love that will be felt by everyone in the future into perpetuity. Add all the love ever felt by every living creature, and add every particle of love that ever will be felt by all creatures in the future until the end of time, and hold that thought.
But wait. There is more.
Earth is but a drop in an immeasurable cosmic ocean, so now multiply this earthly feeling of love exponentially to begin reflecting all actual love existing in the universe in the past, present, and future, in every possible world and every possible dimension.
Now double it. Hold. Double it again and hold. Multiply it by ten and hold. Multiply by a hundred, then a thousand, and hold. Now make it the intensity of a sun going supernova, then billions of suns in an eternally increasing passion of immeasurably expanding white light.
A mind once stretched to accept a new thought or idea never regains its original shape. As love begins to include every living thing everywhere, with almost unbearable intensity, in every waking moment, perhaps we begin to learn to love the way God loves.