Unlike last weeks post where I didn't encourage or expect dialog, this week may dialog flow. I'm curious what you think about one if not both thoughts on love. They both certainly sparked responses in me, but I'll save my personal thoughts for later. Enjoy today's reads for A Course In Love.
Love cannot exist in peace, it will always come accompanied by agonies, ecstasies, intense joys and profound sadnesses.
~ Paulo Coelho
~ Paulo Coelho
Love Makes Us More
Love encourages us to venture into places in our minds and hearts never before explored and which would never have been disclosed except for love. In essence, love reveals us to ourselves.
In love we find the security which encourages us to risk, to try again, to find new behavioral alternatives for old ways. We more deeply discover ourselves as we discover each other. From lovers we are presented with a new vision, a realization that the world we have defined for ourselves may have been delimiting and we are encouraged to open up to new perceptions made possible only through someone else's vision.
Love offers us the most fertile soil for growth. We nurture that soil by enriching it with a willingness to give up our old self and our useless preconceptions. In return, we are presented with a broader vision of ourselves and a world of limitless possibilities for our discovery. Love is not blind. It has perfect vision. It makes it possible for us to see as we have never seen before.
Page 120, Born for Love: Reflections on Loving, Leo Buscaglia
In love we find the security which encourages us to risk, to try again, to find new behavioral alternatives for old ways. We more deeply discover ourselves as we discover each other. From lovers we are presented with a new vision, a realization that the world we have defined for ourselves may have been delimiting and we are encouraged to open up to new perceptions made possible only through someone else's vision.
Love offers us the most fertile soil for growth. We nurture that soil by enriching it with a willingness to give up our old self and our useless preconceptions. In return, we are presented with a broader vision of ourselves and a world of limitless possibilities for our discovery. Love is not blind. It has perfect vision. It makes it possible for us to see as we have never seen before.
Page 120, Born for Love: Reflections on Loving, Leo Buscaglia
I really want to know what you think, what these sparked within you. Go on, get conversation going about LOVE. I would love for you to leave a comment here or via a private message from over on the contact tab or on Facebook. But mostly, take these thoughts and begin dialog right where you are, love is quite powerful.
In Joy and In Love ~ Julia
In Joy and In Love ~ Julia
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