Giving + Receiving Love

 "When we say, "love is a gift," we are reminded that sometimes it is simply bestowed on us."

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To Love and Be Loved

Sam Keen

Love is a gift to give and receive.  Make sure you do both!

Defining and Measuring Love - Poverty or Richness of Love

 "In the final analysis, we do not define or measure love but are defined and measured by it."

"It is the poverty or richness of our love that defines our sense of what is real."

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To Love and Be Loved

Sam Keen

Unarmed truth + Unconditional love

 Martin Luther King, Jr. said:

"Unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality."

Let it be so.  Let it be.  

The Ideal is LOVE - for all of us!

 "Love is the ideal of all of us"

~Robert Solomon, The Passions

Challenge: Be the more loving one

 W.H. Auden's poem

"If equal affection cannot be

     Let the more loving one be me."

Let this challenge us, to be the more loving one.

Let's have a competition to see who can be!

In Love - Paradox Rules - Mystery

 "In quantum physics

as in love,

in searching out

matter and meaning

paradox rules.

Protons, being particle and wave,

persons, being singe and connected,

arrive at their destination

before they embark on the journey.

The arrow of longing

hits the target

before we take aim.

The answer sleeps

in the question.

The lost treasure

is our found/ation.

Start with the conclusion,

the end encoded in the beginning.

The problem of the meaning of life

is solved in the mystery of love.

[poem in front of  "To Love and Be Loved" by Sam Keen

Perfectly Imperfect

 "We come to love - not by finding a perfect person, 

    but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."

 ~Sam Keen, To Love and Be Loved