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Where there is Love
Where there is Love Where there is Love Let Love Be And where there is hate And where there is hate And where there is hate Let Love grow Love is a light A rarefied light Where there is Love Let Love shine And where there is fear And where shadows appear And where there is fear Let Love shine Let Love be Let Love grow Let Love shine The way toward emotional safety, intimacy, and joy begins again with one's partner when we learn how to identify, de-escalate, and assess what ails our relationship. As we uncover ingrained problematic relational patterns, we can look deeper and find the underlying emotions that are often driving our difficulties without our knowledge. We can follow those feelings into the past and find their source in our family of origin attachment experiences and release long-held conflicts in a way that not only liberates us individually but also frees us to transform our present relationship in the ways we long for.
“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.” - Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian Poet and Novelist Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.
- James Baldwin, American writer There’s no question of heroism in all of this. It’s a matter of common decency. That’s an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is – common decency. It is through simple acts of kindness and decency that we can make a difference.
- Albert Camus, French philosopher, author, dramatist, and journalist |
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