expression / love / intimacy
To be loved is to be known
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Love changes what we pay attention to. We start noticing things they care about because we care about them. We learn things we will continue to know even if we end up growing apart.
Loving and letting go are inseparable. You can’t love and cling at the same time. Too often we mistake attachment for love. In Buddhism, loving kindness, or metta, is considered a sublime state of being. A heavenly realm. It’s expansive, allowing, caring, and connective. Attachment masquerades as love. It
Frank Ostaseski • The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
How does this Buddhist framing of love compare with Western notions like Augustine’s caritas or Fromm’s “giving” love?
western views of love and nuclear family - how does this change love
To really get this concept in our bones, I want to share two more examples with you from Jack Kornfield. On love, he writes; The near enemy of love is attachment. Attachment masquerades as love. It says, “I will love this person (because I need something from them).” Or, “I’ll love you if you’ll love me back. I’ll love you, but only if you will be
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At once slow deep green rolled over him. He took a breath, and another, smelling old rotting leaves and healthy growth and autumn light. He felt almost as though he could have planted his feet and become a tree himself, a strong oak reaching up to the sky, brother of the old oak who ruled the wood. Ah, he thought, and nothing else.
Emily Tesh • Silver in the Wood
if you truly love someone you would want them to be happy no matter what, even if that means they are not staying in your life. you will still love them. distance doesnt change the fact that you love them.
in true love, you want the other person to be happy. If they are not with you, you still want them to be happy.
thich nhat hahn
He loves Thee too little who loves anything together with Thee which he loves not for Thy sake.
st augustine
To live in this world you must be able to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.
mary oliver, in blackwaters