My mind is at peace now.
I can finally enjoy the sound of the waves.
Thank You so much, Lord.
You are ready to use me.
I love You.
~JB
Showing posts with label in love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label in love. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Monday, July 1, 2013
7/1/13
1 year today since I first met the love of my life.
It was also the day I taught a lesson to a class.
It was also the day I broke down tremendously again.
It was also the day his love clicked.
G-d, it is so powerful to feel the rapture of his love inside of me, moving me. Please do your work in me tonight, baby.
It's been so long since I've said these words: I am so in love with you
May I channel my love onto the children.
It was also the day I taught a lesson to a class.
It was also the day I broke down tremendously again.
It was also the day his love clicked.
G-d, it is so powerful to feel the rapture of his love inside of me, moving me. Please do your work in me tonight, baby.
It's been so long since I've said these words: I am so in love with you
May I channel my love onto the children.
Friday, April 5, 2013
Contemplating love
From a friend's blog
II: LOVE
Peck defines love as "The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth" (Peck 81). We are simply incapable of loving another unless we love ourselves first. By defining love as a will, he claims that it's a choice rather than a desire. Love, unlike "falling in love," is not effortless.
"Falling in love" is a feeling linked with sexual or erotic experience. Think of who you have fallen in love with in the past. They were probably not a family member or best friend. The ecstatic feeling of falling in love allows us a temporary escape from the loneliness of our individual identities. This means that the harder you fall in love, the lonelier you were before you met the person you're in love with - an unfortunate truth. Falling in love, according to Peck, is a trick that our genes pull on our minds to trap us into marriage. This trick is especially fostered by our culture's illusion of a "happily ever after." But what happens when this honeymoon period is over? Well, then there is the chance for real love to develop.
Ironically, real love is not rooted in the feeling of love. Sometimes we act loving when we don't feel loving. But real love is an extension of oneself. It is permanently rewarding to the lover and the beloved. Love is rooted in the acceptance of the separate individual identities of the persons involved. Love is not dependency, self-sacrifice, or a feeling. Love is discipline, separateness, the work of attention, and a risk (of loss, independence, commitment, and confrontation). More so than anything else, love is a mystery.
II: LOVE
Peck defines love as "The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth" (Peck 81). We are simply incapable of loving another unless we love ourselves first. By defining love as a will, he claims that it's a choice rather than a desire. Love, unlike "falling in love," is not effortless.
"Falling in love" is a feeling linked with sexual or erotic experience. Think of who you have fallen in love with in the past. They were probably not a family member or best friend. The ecstatic feeling of falling in love allows us a temporary escape from the loneliness of our individual identities. This means that the harder you fall in love, the lonelier you were before you met the person you're in love with - an unfortunate truth. Falling in love, according to Peck, is a trick that our genes pull on our minds to trap us into marriage. This trick is especially fostered by our culture's illusion of a "happily ever after." But what happens when this honeymoon period is over? Well, then there is the chance for real love to develop.
Ironically, real love is not rooted in the feeling of love. Sometimes we act loving when we don't feel loving. But real love is an extension of oneself. It is permanently rewarding to the lover and the beloved. Love is rooted in the acceptance of the separate individual identities of the persons involved. Love is not dependency, self-sacrifice, or a feeling. Love is discipline, separateness, the work of attention, and a risk (of loss, independence, commitment, and confrontation). More so than anything else, love is a mystery.
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Peak experiences
Peak experiences are transient moments of self-actualization.
-Maslow, 1971, p. 48
Human beings do not realise the extent to which their own sense of defeat prevents them from doing things they could do perfectly well. The peak experience induces the recognition that your own powers are far greater than you imagined them.
-Colin Wilson
-Maslow, 1971, p. 48
Human beings do not realise the extent to which their own sense of defeat prevents them from doing things they could do perfectly well. The peak experience induces the recognition that your own powers are far greater than you imagined them.
-Colin Wilson
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
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