the intimacy of adapting each other's vocabulary, tones and typings
love isn't a performance to be optimized or a test to be passed — it's a private language spoken between two people who choose, again and again, to keep showing up for each other, phones down, cameras off, no audience required.
Maalvika • tiktok's boyfriend tests & the spectacle of modern love
Love, particularly over time, embraces all the positive aspects of friendship but love relates to the totality of the being of the other, and the surrender of the body becomes the material symbol of that totality.
Nicolas Truong • In Praise of Love
But when lovers get confused about what their masculine or feminine essences truly desire, or they fall into the habit of chasing physical satisfaction, a subtle but chronic form of malnourishment begins to grow. After a few months or years, it becomes a chasm.
John Wineland • From the Core: A New Masculine Paradigm for Leading with Love, Living Your Truth, and Healing the World
When two persons are in love, the deeper they move into it, the less and less they are two, the more and more they become one. And a point comes and a peak is reached when only apparently they are two. Inwardly they are one; the duality is transcended.
Osho • The Book of Secrets: 112 Meditations to Discover the Mystery Within
Finding a partner with whom we can be vulnerable constitutes a supreme act of restoration. After a lifetime of denial and false strength, we stand to find in another the sympathy that was sorely needed but unavailable to us in the past. The old wounds can be gently tended; we become stronger by learning to speak the language of weakness. By letting
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