Love’s Working

“…When we love another person, we love them for the ways that they are different to us, as well as the ways that they are the same. When we love another well, we help them to become all that they are uniquely capable of being, without diminishment of our own uniqueness… The goal is kenotic openness to the ‘truth’ of the person before us, without diminishing the ‘truth’ of our own selves…”

- Michelle Trebilcock, via here.

"...What we seek constantly in romantic love is not human love or human relationship alone; we also seek a religious experience, a vision of wholeness.  Here is the meaning of the magic, the sorcery, the supernatural in the love potion.  There is another world that is outside the vision of our ego-minds: It is the realm of psyche, the realm of unconscious.  It is there that our souls and our spirits live, for unknown to our conscious Western minds, our souls and spirits are psychological realities, and they live on in our psyches without our knowledge.  And it is there, in the unconscious, that God lives, whoever God may be for us as individuals."

- Robert Johnson, Jungian therapist – via here.

“…Unhappy love initiates an investigation into lovelessness.  We come face to face with the epic journey to recover our sense of Beloved-ness…” 

- Gillian Rose, via here.

Comments

[Richard Paxson]

Thanks for this post. It was just what I needed to read tonight!