A Valentine's Day quote from Thich Nhat Hanh
"Nothing is more beautiful than true love. In true love we don't make
each other worry, suffer, or get angry. On the contrary, we have the
ability to offer joy and reduce suffering in our loved one. Because
of understanding, we know how to love, and we don't rob the joy, the
appreciation, the inspiration of our loved one; we don't force our
loved one to think like we think, to act like we act, to like the
things that we like, but we let our loved one maintain herself. In
true love there is no discrimination. In true love we always think of
ways to help our loved one to carry out their dream, their
aspiration. And the other person will equally support us in that way.
Our love will not be limited or prohibited by any religion or
theology. When we have happiness in our love, we have the ability to
create happiness for other people. That love can be developed to
embrace all human beings, it can keep growing endlessly so that one
day it can embrace the whole universe. In Buddhism this love is
called love without boundaries.
"Nothing is more beautiful than true love. In true love we don't make
each other worry, suffer, or get angry. On the contrary, we have the
ability to offer joy and reduce suffering in our loved one. Because
of understanding, we know how to love, and we don't rob the joy, the
appreciation, the inspiration of our loved one; we don't force our
loved one to think like we think, to act like we act, to like the
things that we like, but we let our loved one maintain herself. In
true love there is no discrimination. In true love we always think of
ways to help our loved one to carry out their dream, their
aspiration. And the other person will equally support us in that way.
Our love will not be limited or prohibited by any religion or
theology. When we have happiness in our love, we have the ability to
create happiness for other people. That love can be developed to
embrace all human beings, it can keep growing endlessly so that one
day it can embrace the whole universe. In Buddhism this love is
called love without boundaries.
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Re: On Love (for Valentine's Day)
Thu, February 14, 2008 - 6:54 AM"We're not here to earn God's love, we're here to spend it!"
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Re: On Love (for Valentine's Day)
Thu, February 14, 2008 - 5:13 PMThats an awsome way to think about it
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Re: On Love (for Valentine's Day)
Sun, February 24, 2008 - 2:40 AM“Something of exquisite beauty arose in the mind of each at last, something unforgettable and eternal, but built of the humblest scraps of speech and from the simplest emotions.” – E. M. Forster (from "Maurice")
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Re: On Love (for Valentine's Day)
Sun, February 24, 2008 - 2:41 AM“The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.” -- James Baldwin (1924-1987) -
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Re: On Love (for Valentine's Day)
Sun, February 24, 2008 - 7:57 PMJames has been a huge star on this tribe hasn't he
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Re: On Love (for Valentine's Day)
Sun, February 24, 2008 - 8:01 PMbeautiful -
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Re: On Love (for Valentine's Day)
Mon, March 10, 2008 - 1:18 PMAn act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by its own fullness, not by its reception.
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Re: On Love (for Valentine's Day)
Mon, March 10, 2008 - 11:59 PMI see
Sort of like
We don't have to be loved back
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On Love
Sat, March 22, 2008 - 7:13 AM"The criteria for success: you are free, you live in the present moment, you are useful to the people around you, and you feel love for all
humanity."
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Re: On Love
Wed, April 16, 2008 - 1:42 PM"Why do we focus so intensely on our problems? What draws us to them?
Why are they so attractive? They have the magnet power of love:
somehow we desire our problems; we are in love with them much as we
want to get rid of them . . . Problems sustain us -- maybe that's why
they don't go away. What would a life be without them? Completely
tranquilized and loveless . . . There is a secret love hiding in each
problem . . . ."
- James Hillman, *The Essential James Hillman: A Blue Fire,* edited
by Thomas Moore
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Re: On Love
Thu, May 22, 2008 - 1:48 PMLove makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
St. Teresa of Avila -
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Re: On Love
Sat, May 31, 2008 - 5:18 PM"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."... James
Baldwin
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Re: On Love (for Valentine's Day)
Sat, May 31, 2008 - 9:56 PM"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or ever generations.” - Kahlil Gibran
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Re: On Love (for Valentine's Day)
Tue, June 3, 2008 - 3:04 AM“The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.” - Audre Lorde (1934-1992) -
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Re: On Love (for Valentine's Day)
Sun, July 20, 2008 - 4:26 PMTo open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. But the place for this warrior strength is in the heart.
Jack Kornfield
A Path with Heart
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