@nickcammarata Always loved this banger from Ram Dass:
"When you say, “I’m in love with you,” what you’re really saying is that you are the key stimulus that is opening me to the place in myself where I am love, which I can’t get to except through you"
Jonny Millerx.com@nickcammarata Always loved this banger from Ram Dass: "When you say, “I’m in love with you,” what you’re really saying is that you are the key stimulus that is opening me to the place in myself where I am love, which I can’t get to except through you"
For the Hindu mind, in the Upanishads they say that you love your wife not for your wife’s sake; you love your wife just for your own sake. You love yourself through her. Because she gives you pleasure, that’s why you love her—but deep down, you love your own pleasure. You love your son, you love your friend, not because of them but because of you.
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Here we are, thinking that one needs to be in love with another to shine, to feel free and shout from the rooftops, but the most important person, the most important relationship we’ll ever have is waiting, is craving to be loved truly and deeply.
Kamal Ravikant • Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It
else. What we call the pain of love arises from mistaking unhealthy attachment for love. It looks like love but it’s very different. Love is a movement of the heart that opens and radiates out. Attachment is contraction of the heart as it closes in fear. “Love is not painful,” Ram Dass said with a wise smile, “and now that you know the experience o
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