Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
There are times when we suffer and we don’t know why. We don’t know the nature of the suffering.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
Both people have to heal on their own so they feel at ease in themselves; then they can become a home for each other. Otherwise, all that we share in physical intimacy is our loneliness and suffering.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
Everyone needs a spiritual dimension in his or her life. Without a spiritual dimension, we can’t deal with the daily difficulties we encounter.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
Love has its roots to some extent in sensual desire. Sensual desire has the capacity to become love in all of us.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
If we don’t listen to our own suffering, we won’t understand it, and we won’t have compassion for ourselves. Compassion is the element that helps heal us.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
Our feeling leads to a perception.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
You have to learn how to be comfortable with yourself and focus on making your own home within.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
“My dear sensual love, I know your root. You come from desire based on my wrong perceptions. But now I don’t have that craving, and you can’t touch me. Even if you are there, you can’t pull me. I don’t have any more wishes, and I have no more wrong perceptions about you. So how can you arise?”
Thich Nhat Hanh • Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
One of the greatest gifts we can offer to other people is to embody non-fear and nonattachment.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
True love doesn’t contain suffering or attachment.