Saturday, April 9, 2011

What is Love


Our favorite description of love is from the movie Captain Corelli's Mandolin
"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms had fallen...



Everyone wants to be loved. When it comes to getting the love you want, it's very important to make sure you are in tune with yourself. You need to have dreams and aspirations for your life. This way, when you do find a life partner, you can be confident in yourself and make it obvious of what ..


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No woman is worthy to be a wife who on the day of her marriage is not absolutely and entirely lost in an atmosphere of love and perfect trust; the supreme sacredness of the relation is the only thing which, at the time, should possess her soul. Women should not "obey" men anymore than men ...


Questions have power. They can open our minds up to new possibilities and ways-of-being, they can alter the course of our thoughts and shape our behavior in positive ways... ...and questions can have the opposite effect, shutting us down with the force of a jackhammer. And some questions ...


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For some men, women are the world's greatest mystery. You never know what they may be thinking at any given time. They say one thing and sometimes do another. They worry about things that we wouldn't stress out about. Lets just say, women can drive us nuts, but we love them. So what do you do if ...


What makes people fall in love? We find someone we are in love with, but two years later we wonder what we ever saw in them. No one can say this hasn’t happened to them, whether it was a high school crush or our first romance. Unrequited love is harsh. IT leaves us feeling rejected. Our feelings ...


You have been by my side since I can remember. You are my best friend and my life partner. You walk with me in troubled waters, you help me through such troubled times. You are my heart and my soul. You remember things with such great detail. You understand when life takes its toll. You say such ...


The last few months have been a real trying time for my family and me. However, they have also been a source of a wonderful lesson in life. During this time, I lost a close family member, who I dearly loved. The shocks of her sudden diagnosis of a lethal cancer and subsequently losing her within ..


People speculate a lot with the word trust and they do it on purpose. I would like to make a few clarifications about it... Many times trust is mixed with faith. But to have faith is one thing and to trust someone is something completely different. Faith is pointing outwards, it is created ...


Love or Fear Think of love and fear as day and night. Now imagine the sun representing love and the night representing fear. It's a simple analogy, and one, that if you allow yourself to be open to its deepest truth, could induce a major shift in your consciousness. If Love is like the ...