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20 May 12

“ Love can come when you’re already who you are, when you’re filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.

— Deb Caletti (via kari-shma)

14 May 12

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“ Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment… Dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love — which is to transform us.

— bell hooks (via transformfeminism)

(Source: quelowat)

30 April 12

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“ Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

— (uncertain whether this is Rumi. It also appears in A Course in Miracles)

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26 April 12

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“ Immature people falling in love destroy each other’s freedom, create a bondage, make a prison. Mature persons in love help each other to be free; they help each other to destroy all sorts of bondages. And when love flows with freedom there is beauty. When love flows with dependence there is ugliness.

A mature person does not fall in love, he or she rises in love. Only immature people fall; they stumble and fall down in love. Somehow they were managing and standing. Now they cannot manage and they cannot stand. They were always ready to fall on the ground and to creep. They don’t have the backbone, the spine; they don’t have the integrity to stand alone.

A mature person has the integrity to stand alone. And when a mature person gives love, he or she gives without any strings attached to it. When two mature persons are in love, one of the great paradoxes of life happens, one of the most beautiful phenomena: they are together and yet tremendously alone. They are together so much that they are almost one. Two mature persons in love help each other to become more free. There is no politics involved, no diplomacy, no effort to dominate. Only freedom and love.

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Osho (via nirvikalpa)

yes.

(via sammystokes)

Guys, I love that page from Gaiman’s Sandman about how awful love is that’s resurfaced today as much as anybody. It’s well-written and, to the right person in the right time, true, as all stories can be. But I’d like to proffer the other side.

(via shortmikeshort)

25 April 12

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“ Love is being stupid together.

— Paul Valery

23 April 12

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“ Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

— Rainer Maria Rilke