a vast, all-encompassing quality

“Love can have this vast, all-encompassing quality. It can be allowed to spread until it permeates the very core of our relationships. Yet often, instead of giving love room to expand, we box it in with our expectations. Expectations make our love conditional on whether or not the relationship fulfills our wishes. How can you expect love to last when you demand that it meet your conditions, and you act as if you own another person?”
–H.H. the 17th Karmapa, ‘The Heart Is Noble: Changing the World from the Inside Out’