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41 " Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love. "
― , All About Love: New Visions
42 " To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients - care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication. "
43 " Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively. "
44 " In patriarchal culture men are especially inclined to see love as something they should receive without expending effort. More often than not they do not want to do the work that love demands. When the practice of love invites us to enter a place of potential bliss that is at the same time a place of critical awakening and pain, many of us turn our backs on love. "
45 " Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart. "
46 " In our culture privacy is often confused with secrecy. Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with thoughts and feelings - where we can experience healthy psychological autonomy and can choose to share when we want to. Keeping secrets is usually about power, about hiding and concealing information. "
47 " Only love can heal the wounds of the past. However, the intensity of our woundedness often leads to a closing of the heart, making it impossible for us to give or receive the love that is given to us. "
48 " Being loving does not mean we will not be betrayed. Love helps up face betrayal without losing heart. And it renews our spirit so we can love again. "
49 " Embracing love ethic means that we utilize all dimensions of love-- "care, commitment, trust, responsibility, respect and knowledge"-- in our everyday lives. "
50 " Love empowers us to live fully and die well. Death becomes, then, not an end to life but a part of living. "
51 " All awakening to love is spiritual awakening "
52 " Love allows us to confront these negative realities in a manner that is life-affirming and life enhancing. "
53 " I learned then that it is more fulfilling to live one's life within a circle of love, interacting with loved ones to whole we are committed. "
54 " I learned then that it is more fulfilling to live one's life within a circle of love, interacting with loved ones to whom we are committed. "
55 " Refusal to stand up for what you believe in weakens individual morality and ethics as well as those of the culture. "
56 " To be loving is to be open to grief, to be touched by sorrow, even sorrow that is unending. "
57 " Self-acceptance is hard for many of us. There is a voice inside that is constantly judging, first ourselves and then others. "
58 " Spirituality and spiritual life gives us the strength to love. "
59 " The choice to love is a choice to connect--- to find ourselves in the other. "
60 " In truth, true love is all about work. "