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This imaginative interpenetration of experience is necessary for the greatest challenge of consciousness — understanding what it is like to be another. Without it, there can be no love, for we cannot love whom we do not understand — then we are pseudo-loving a projection. A sign of healthy love, therefore, is the ability to be reliable and... See more
Donald Winnicott • Article
If you want to understand others, you must start by
understanding yourself.
Stefan Stenudd • Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu Translated and Explained — Chapter 54
Thich Nhat Hanh: "Understanding is love's other name. If you don't understand, you can't love.”
Ava • seeing that saves
Relationships are like gazing into clear, bottomless pools of water. Look hard enough and you’ll meet the eyes of your own reflection. Stare into the soul of someone else long enough, and you’ll fall deeper into the abyss of yourself. The more you love the person in front of you, the more you understand yourself.
Grace Capobianco • The Autonomy of Monogamy
In Embracing the Beloved, authors Stephen and Ondrea Levine wrote: “If another person is the most important thing in your life, then you’re in trouble and they’re in trouble because they become responsible for your suffering. But if consciousness is the most important thing in our lives and relationship is a means toward that end … Ah! then we are
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