"When we see love as the will to nurture one's own or another's spiritual growth, revealed through acts of care, respect, knowing, and assuming respons...
Living simply makes loving simple.
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"Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love. When we see ourselves as we truly are and ...
"When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat
"When anyone thinks a woman who serves "gives 'cause that's what mothers or real women do," they deny her full humanity and thus fail to see the genero...
"Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
"Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be intimate with are frozen in time, unable to allow th...
"True love is a different story. When it happens, individuals usually feel in touch with each other's core identity. Embarking on such a relationship i...
"The men in my life have always been the folks who are wary of using the word 'love' lightly. They are wary because they believe women make too much of...
"Visionary feminism is a wise and loving politics. It is rooted in the love of male and female being, refusing to privilege one over the other. The sou...
"Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that lov...
"Usually, fundamentalists, be they Christian, Muslim, or any faith, shape and interpret religious thought to make it conform to and legitimize a conser...
"To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes ...
"Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.
"Often men who have been emotionally neglected and abused as children by dominating mothers bond with assertive women, only to have their childhood fee...
"I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenoph...