How should you train yourself in the quality of Hesed, Love? The basic way you enter the mystery of Hesed is by loving God to the extreme, not abandoning devotion for any reason at all, since nothing attracts you in the least, compared to loving God...
.. In expressing love to creatures here below, intend
that you are mending up above, after the same pattern.
You thereby bestow love on God.
(p. 88)
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