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All About Love

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  • forgetenothas quoted3 years ago
    I am grateful to have been raised in a family that was caring, and strongly believe that had my parents been loved well by their parents they would have given that love to their children. They gave what they had been given—care.
  • forgetenothas quoted3 years ago
    In The Knitting Sutra, Susan Lydon describes the labor of knitting as a freely chosen craft that enhances her awareness of the value of right livelihood, sharing: “What I found in this tiny domestic world of knitting is endless; it runs broader and deeper than anyone might imagine. It is infinite and seemingly inexhaustible in its capacity to inspire, excite, and provoke creative insight.” Lydon sees the world that we have traditionally thought of as “woman’s work” as a place to discover godliness through the act of creating domestic bliss. A blissful household is one where love can flourish.
  • Varaidzo Jabangwehas quoted2 years ago
    When we love we can let our hearts speak.
  • Ivana Melgozahas quoted3 years ago
    deceit, betrayal, and a lack of care for the feelings of others can never be a place where love will flourish.
  • forgetenothas quoted3 years ago
    Many of us choose relationships of affection and care that will never become loving because they feel safer.
  • Yaz Arreolahas quoted4 years ago
    When we understand love as the will to nurture our own and another’s spiritual growth, it becomes clear that we cannot claim to love if we are hurtful and abusive. Love and abuse cannot coexist
  • lizethohas quoted4 years ago
    many of us are more comfortable with the notion that love can mean anything to anybody precisely because when we define it with precision and clarity it brings us face to face with our lacks
  • Lucero De La Fuentehas quoted5 years ago
    Love empowers us to surrender. We do not need to have endless anxiety and worry about whether we will fulfill our goals or plans. Death is always there to remind us that our plans are transitory. By learning to love, we learn to accept change. Without change, we cannot grow. Our will to grow in spirit and truth is how we stand before life and death, ready to choose life.
  • Rapsoda CEhas quoted6 years ago
    It is easier to articulate the pain of love’s absence than to describe its presence and meaning in our lives.
  • trexhas quoted4 months ago
    Men theorize about love, but women are more often love’s practitioners.
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