Loving the unlovable
“Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.” – G.K. Chesterton
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Love
“Love yourself, and make your instrument sing about it.”
“Think of it this way.” said Helmholtz. “Our aim is to make the world more beautiful than it was when we came into it. It can be done. You can do it.” A small cry of despair came from Jim Donnini. It was meant to be private, but it pierced every ear with its poignancy.
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Love and Freedom
Love is vast attachment, inseparable from, an even greater dynamism devoted to the full and complete creative realisation of the object of one’s love. That is, to quote Sting, “If you love someone, set them free.” So, loving someone is impossible without the capacity to suffer through loss and heartbreak: what you love and have
When the power of love overcomes the love of power…
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” Jimi Hendrix
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love, egotism, openness
Love is that which calls us out of our egotism and self-centredness into an openness to, and a deeper interelatedness with, others, and with the universe as a whole.
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growing pains
Love is an attitude towards someone that, while wholely accepting who they are, anticipates, and willingly labours towards, their most fulfilling and enriching growth. Towards, we might say, the disclosure and expression of ‘who they are, fully and completely’. Towards, their wholely mindful, and wholehearted, liberation. But growth is ongoing, and growth is change, and
love is revelatory
This process of loving, and of being loved, is intrinsically revelatory. There is much in ourselves, and in the deep structures of societies, which resists revelation.
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it’s difficult to love the difficult
It’s a testament that some folks seem to need Jesus, heaven, everlasting life, and the threat of eternal damnation, to be willing to love someone. I’ll take it as a testament to how difficult love is. And how very difficult it is to love the very difficult.
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Love is “…an attitude, an orientation of character…”
Love is “…an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole…” Erich Fromm – The Art of Loving
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Infantile and Mature Love
“Infantile love follows the principle: ‘ I love because I am loved.’ Mature love follows the principle: ‘I am loved because I love.’ Immature love says, ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’ ” Erich Fromm – The Art of Loving
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