These are difficult times, with so much conflict, insecurity and suffering in hotspots such as Israel and Ukraine, but also at some level globally as the old certainties break down. We have to go in the opposite direction and feed it if we are to contribute. The opposite of hate and conflict is simply love; love that fills us with warm caring and intimacy to all the parts of ourselves. Love that includes and feels the pain of others. Enduring friendliness and kindness is in the end the only way to be in the world, and it is certainly, as the Buddha once said, a primary pathway to awakening.