To expand a bit upon Clint's remarks on "Caring" in response to yours, Zak, (because spiritual progress requires its understanding)...

First, and please, indeed do click on the link provided by Clint and go have a look at Webster's definitions of "care" and "love." In so doing, one will quickly find some of the ways in which we all seem to "care" for things in our world. In respect to "care" Webster clearly demonstrates, "Painstaking or watchful attention" - as in the case of caring for the sick or caring for the basic needs of our children or caring for the maintenance of our cars - is a very common way in which we apply "care" to our personal realities. "Regard, coming from desire or esteem" - as in caring about our spouse or family members or even employers or friends - likewise emerges from Webster's dictionary as a way in which everyone commonly employs the distinction of "care" in our everyday lives.

But, consider too, that other elements of the definition of the word "care" are also used every day in the life of most people, and often, are not applied in any way aligned with what most relate to as the limit to its definition - referring to Clint's remark that most people confuse "caring" for someone or something with "loving" that person or thing. To wit, "loving" someone or something is not at all the same as "caring" for someone or something. They are distinct from each other. They are not the same. This is why the two experiences have different words we use to express them.