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Tag Archives: Relationships
Love & Our Two Selves
. This post was prompted in part by a post that was reblogged by Todd Loheny from MindBodyGreen.com titled “The Reason Love Dies (And How To Get It Back!)” by Shelly Bullard, MFT. This is not a direct response to her … Continue reading
Posted in "To Have or To Be?", Erich Fromm, M. Scott Peck, Martin Luther King Jr., Real Love, The Examined Life, The Road Less Traveled, Truth, Waking Up, What is Love?
Tagged "To Have Or To Be?", Chris Rock, Erich Fromm, Intimate Realtionships, Love, M. Scott Peck, Martin Luther King Jr., Relationships, The Road Less Traveled
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Love, the Feeling, versus Love, the Capacity (Immature Love versus Mature Love, part 2)
. A properly (or fully) developed human being is a Loving human being. Love, ultimately, is a capacity. A capacity that develops as the result of developing many other capacities and virtues and behavioral predispositions. Some of these are of … Continue reading
Posted in chapter 13, Conscience, Conscious Love, Courage, Differentiation, Emotional Maturity, Friendship, Generosity, Gratitude, Honesty, Immature Love, Love is Not a Feeling, Mature Love, Perspective, Real Love, Self-Love, Spiritual Growth, Thích Nhất Hạnh, Truth, Waking Up, What is Love?
Tagged Behavior, Character Orientation, Conscience, Conscious Love, Conscious Relationships, Gratitude, Immature Love, Love, Love is a Virtue, Love is Not a Feeling, Matthew Chapter 13, Mature Love, Real Love, Relationships, Romatic Love, Thích Nhất Hạnh, Thich Hnat Hanh, Virtue, Virtues
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What Is This “Love” Thing All About? (Part 1)
. This will be a two part post. Part one will consist of a repost/reblog of an advice column question and the answer that was given in that column. Part two (which will appear sometime in the next few days) … Continue reading
Posted in "Dear Sugar", "Tiny Beautiful Things", Cheryl Strayed, Courage, Death, Honesty, Intimate Relationships, therumpus.net, What is Love?
Tagged "Dear Sugar", "Tiny Beautiful Things", "What is Love?", Cheryl Strayed, DearSugar, Death, Honesty, Intimate relationships, Love, Relationships, Rumpus, Rumpus Advice Column, therumpus.net, What is love?
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Why Do We Love?
Why Do We Love? Is it for our own sake or the sake of the one we are loving? [W]e don’t love people and animals because we will have them forever, we love them because loving them changes us, makes … Continue reading
Posted in 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7, Conscience, Courage, Czeslaw Milosz, Emotional Maturity, Immature Love, Intimate Relationships, M. Scott Peck, Mature Love, Mental Health, Real Love, Thomas Merton, Truth, Waking Up, What is Love?
Tagged 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7, 1 John 3:18, Czeslaw Milosz, Dedication to Reality, Dedication to Truth, Glennon Melton, M. Scott Peck, Momastery, Real Love, Relationships, Thomas Merton, Truth
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Are You *Ready* for a Relationship?
Good relationships don’t happen by “accident.” They’re not just based on chemical attraction, projection, and mutual intoxication that just happens to last for years and years. Good relationships require something more: they require fundamentally good and decent people. When two … Continue reading
When It Comes to Love, We ALL Start Out As Beginners . . .
When it comes to love, we all start out as beginners. It’s like picking up a tennis racquet for the first time. We may like to think that we already know how to hit the ball, and that with a … Continue reading
Posted in Alan Paton, Antilove, Conscience, Conscious Love, Courage, Emotional Maturity, Gandhi, Gratitude, Immature Love, Intimacy, Intimate Relationships, Leo Buscaglia, Love is a Choice, Love is a Commitment, Love is an Act of Will, Love is Not a Feeling, Mature Love, Mental Health, Real Love, Rilke, Spiritual Growth, Truth, Waking Up, What is Love?
Tagged Alan Paton, Buddha, Christ, Leo Buscaglia, Limerence, Love, Love is Not a Feeling, Real Love, Relationships, Rilke, Romance
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Krishnamurti on Relationships & Self-Knowledge
The following are some of my favorite Krishnamurti quotes and excerpts that I have accumulated over the years. And some of these may include my own amending and modifications, because when I read, I don’t just consider what the author … Continue reading
Posted in Immature Love, Intimacy, Intimate Relationships, Kierkegaard, Krishnamurti, M. Scott Peck, Real Love, Schnarch, Spiritual Growth, The Road Less Traveled, Truth, Waking Up, What is Love?
Tagged Avoidance, David Schnarch, Interpersonal relationship, Intimacy, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Kierkegaard, M. Scott Peck, Mental health, Relationships, Truth
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Love at the Extremes: Loving the Unlovable, Loving the Unloving
DEAR World, Happy Valentine’s Day! This is my (brief) love letter to you, to the world, or at least to those people who happen to happen upon this blog. (My longer love letter to the world for the day can … Continue reading
How To Fall In Love Again (updated 1/10/12)
“I have no way of knowing whether or not you married the wrong person. But I do know that if you treat the wrong person like the right person, you could well end up having married the right person after … Continue reading
Posted in C.S. Lewis, Conscious Love, Courage, Emotional Maturity, Gandhi, GinaParris.com, Immature Love, Intimate Relationships, Love, Love is a Choice, Love is a Commitment, Love is a Decision, Love is an Act of Will, Love is Not a Feeling, M. Scott Peck, Mature Love, Mental Health, Real Love, Self-Extension, What is Love?
Tagged C.S. Lewis, Gandhi, ginaparris.com, Husband, Love, M. Scott Peck, Marriage, Real Love, Relationships, Road Less Traveled, Romance, Zig Ziglar
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