And -- especially given that love can bring truth -- isn't it better to expand love's scope than to narrow it?
Expanding love gets down to appreciating that love must be current, electric, pulsating, fresh, flowing, spontaneous.
On the "positive path" we express by open-heart and receptivity, expanding love, truth, and benefit to all.
It's not just about expanding love beyond two romantic partners; it's a fluid practice that shifts depending on the participants' needs, desires, and agreed-upon norms.
Research shows that expanding love-making outside the bedroom brings couples closer together, and increases feelings of sexual empowerment.
And this expanding of love is, as T.S. Eliot wrote, 'the use of memory' - and of a memorial service.
"RuPaul's Drag Race" migrated from Logo to a marquee hour on VH1 this year; VH1 has also given the producer Mona Scott-Young wide leeway in expanding her "Love & Hip Hop" franchise.
Mr. Aguirre-Sacasa has been working with one of the two original script writers, Glen Berger, to make the show more upbeat and expand its love story; the other original writer, and the show's first director, Julie Taymor, was fired last month so the producers could bring in the new team.
By the Ugandan-born writer Nick Makoha, who spoke typically and eloquently of his resolve to be closer to his own children than his distant father had been to him, and of how the overwhelming sensation of holding your child in your arms for the first time was the literal, frightening feeling of "your heart expanding with love".
In the aftermath of the drive, there were allegations of dirty tactics by each side; a personal plea from Mr. Mackey for the Madison employees to "expand into love"; and the firing of two pro-union employees over what they say was, almost literally, spilt milk.
