Is Love the Ground for Wisdom?

It's important to realize that alabov aversion does not fall away with the first phrase we utter, of loving kindness. The bodisata spend years, even lifetimes, cultivating and purifying this quality of the heart. Some one once asked dipama whether she should be practising mindfulness or loving kindness. Di pama answered, for my experience, there is no difference. For her, love and awareness were one. When you are fully loving, aren't you also mindful? And when you are fully mindful, is this not also the essence of love? i think for all of us, as we do both formal practices, we begin to see that the qualities begin to merge together