Tag: soul-mate

  • The Beginning Of Love

    “The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.” -Thomas Merton, No Man Is An Island

  • A Love So Free

    “Love me without fear, trust me without questioning, need me without demanding, want me without restrictions, accept me without changes, desire me without inhibitions… For a love so free, will never fly away.” -Dick Sutphen

  • Longing vs Anticipation

    We’ve said it a thousand times – I miss you. I miss you can mean many things but is generally an expression of longing, of lack and hunger. I miss you is an expression of pain and suffering.

  • Why does intensely loving someone cause raging self doubt?

    It seems the more intensely we love someone, especially someone new, the more prone we are to experience sense of self-doubt and impending doom. Omg, it’s been 2 hours and they haven’t texted me once! Are they okay? Do they not love me anymore? Are they cheating on me? What did I do? Obviously, relax…

  • Learning to Love Yourself

    In Plato’s “Symposium,” Aristophanes, a respected Ancient Greek playwright, submits to the forum assembled around him that Love is when two people find their soul-mate in each other and recognize an ancient bond between them. The notion of soul-mates has survived to this day, deluding us about the true nature of love.