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Tag Archives: What is love?
Passion & Reason: Following Your Head & Following Your Heart (or Tuning Both & Following Both)
. . We’re all at the helm of something with an impressive amount of horsepower—this body, with its heart, ego, and genitalia, each full of their own passions, motivations, preferences, desires, aversions. The ego wants fame, attention, power, immortality, runs … Continue reading
Posted in Emotional Maturity, Gibran, M. Scott Peck, Mental Health, The Examined Life, Truth, Waking Up, What is Love?
Tagged "The Prophet", Emotyional Maturity, Growing Up, Kahlil Gibran, M. Scott Peck, Mental health, Passion, Self-Discipline, The Road Less Traveled, Truth, Waking Up, What is love?
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Love (& a Whitman’s Sampler)
. “For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.” ― … Continue reading
Posted in M. Scott Peck, Mature Love, Mental Health, Orson Scott Card, Real Love, Spiritual Growth, The Examined Life, Truth, Waking Up, What is Love?
Tagged Erich Fromm, Immature Love, M. Scott Peck, Mature Love, Murray Bowen, Orson Scott Card, Real Love, Stephen Covey, Thích Nhất Hạnh, What is love?
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How Do You Define Love? How Do You Know What Love Is?
. How Do You Define Love? How we define love—as a feeling or as an action, as something that we feel and that is triggered by another or others, or as something we do and a way of life and … Continue reading
Posted in "Love Wins", Albert Einstein, C.S. Lewis, Glennon Melton, Jim Rohn, Luke 6:32-35, Mature Love, Momastery, Real Love, Spiritual Growth, The Examined Life, Truth, Waking Up, What is Love?
Tagged "Love Wins", Albert Einstein, C.S. Lewis, Gordon Hinckley, Jim Rohn, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Love, Luke 6:32-35, Philosophy, Reading, The Examined Life, Thinking, What is love?
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C. S. Lewis on Love & Kindness (and the difference between the two)
. . The following is abridged & adapted from C. S. Lewis’s book “The Problem of Pain,” pages 35-44, & 58. The parenthetical remarks are mine. . Are we not in an increasingly cruel age? Perhaps we are. But I … Continue reading
Love *Is* Difficult
. Love is difficult. It is difficult to learn how to really love another person. It is difficult to learn how to love oneself. Loving another means caring deeply for that person, being good to that person, wanting the best … Continue reading
Posted in Difficulty, Immature Love, Intimacy, Intimate Relationships, Love, Love is Not a Feeling, Mental Health, Real Love, Rilke, Truth, What is Love?
Tagged Growing Up, Intimate relationship, Letters to a Young Poet, Love, Love is Difficult, Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke, Truth, What is love?
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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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Thoughts on Love by C. S. Lewis, Kahlil Gibran, Henri J. Nouwen, David Deida, and others. . . .
Often my posts here and on my other blogs serve as missions statements of sorts. They reflect what I aspire to and the standards that I deeply hold myself to. (For example, see my other blog for a companion piece … Continue reading
Posted in C.S. Lewis, Courage, David Deida, Differentiation, Emotional Maturity, Gibran, Hazrat Inayat Khan, Henri J. Nouwen, Love, Love is a Choice, Love is a Decision, Love is an Act of Will, Love is Not a Feeling
Tagged "The Four Loves", "The Inner Voice of Love", "The Prophet", "Waiting to Love", C.S. Lewis, Courage, David Deida, emotional maturity, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Hazrat Inayat Khan, Henri J. Nouwen, Kahlil Gibran, personal growth, Real Love, Spirituality, Tom Kenyon, What is love?
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“Differentiation: The Most Loving Thing You Can Do” (From “Passionate Marriage,” by David Schnarch)
Since differentiation is a complex process that is easily misunderstood, let me offer several important clarifications: People screaming, “I got to be me!” “Don’t fence me in!” and “I need space!” are not highly differentiated people. Just the opposite. They … Continue reading
Why Real Love Is Not a Feeling
The feeling of love is about oneself—how we feel about a person or how a person makes us feel is completely about us, not the other person. And that’s not love—not real love. Real love is about the other person … Continue reading
Posted in Courage, Differentiation, Erich Fromm, Love, Love is Not a Feeling, M. Scott Peck, Waking Up, What is Love?
Tagged a life with principles, Courage, Erich Fromm, Honesty, Love, Love is Not a Feeling, M. Scott Peck, Moral Courage, Personal development, Personal Development and Moral Development, Relationship, Waking Up, What is love?
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What is Love?
“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.” – Erich Fromm If you truly want to help revolutionize life on earth, if you truly want to become part of the solution instead of perpetuating … Continue reading
Posted in Courage, Love, Waking Up, What is Love?
Tagged C.S. Lewis, Dag Hammarskjöld, Emotion, Erich Fromm, Health, Interpersonal relationship, Krishnamurti, Narcissism, Real Love, Relationship, Romance, What is love?
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