Love & Relationships
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain? Kahlil Gibran, 1883 – 1931 Holding and appreciating someone in our heart for many...
Have you ever wondered why people hold on to attitudes and habits that are not good for them? Although life has proven it to them? I have wondered about it a lot in my life, esp. as I saw myself doing it, as well. The resistance to do what’s good for us has many...
How to live love on all levels be it physical, personal, in relationships, your community or embracing the world
True love isn’t so much a dreamy feeling that you have as it is an enduring commitment to give sacrificially - even, or perhaps especially, when you don’t feel like it. – William R. Mattox, Jr. This is a longer road than just being in love Use the free course on Creating healthy relationships...
If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person. Fred McFeely Rogers, 1928 – 2003 We are often so involved...
Searching for true Love? Find out what it means on each level
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. These words by Reinhold...
Hating people is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat. Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1878 – 1969 There are better ways. Use the free course on Creating healthy relationships The course provides you with information, instructions and tips on the difference between delight and fright in relationships the difference between co-dependent...
As bad as physical disease is for the eyes, there is another disease which can ruin your relationships. It is the “I” disease where your conversation contains the words, “I” , “me”, “my”, and “mine”, every eight to tens words. If these words were removed from most people’s conversation they would have nothing to...
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When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends. Orson Welles, 1915 – 1985 Do you know how to develop healthy friendships so your friends will use their nose? Check out the free course on Creating Healthy Relationships The course provides you with...
Love addiction is deeply rooted and culturally supported through the ideal of romantic love. To break through the illusion, you may need extra help in understanding the dynamics of love addiction and in shifting the energetic patterns that hold the addiction in place so that you can develop healthy relationship patterns and communication skills....
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. - Abraham Lincoln, 1809 – 1865 Here is a range of support for you how to succeed: Get the free course on how to improve your self-esteem. If you love to learn through books, here are...
Healthy relationships are not the result of romantic love. They are the result of hard work. Use the free course on Creating healthy relationships to find out more where you stand The course provides you with information, instructions and tips on the difference between delight and fright in relationships the difference between co-dependent and...
Love addiction is deeply rooted and culturally supported through the ideal of romantic love. To break through the illusion, you may need extra help in understanding the dynamics of love addiction and in shifting the energetic patterns that hold the addiction in place so that you can develop healthy relationship patterns and communication skills....
A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement. Ann Landers, 1918 – 2002 reminds us that we have to work for it. What often prevents us is a romatic ideal of love that songs, television and movies suggest to us day by day. If you want to check out your perceptions...
Here is a simple tip any gardener will tell you. Try pulling on a plant. If it comes out easily, it’s a desirable plant. If it stubbornly resists with roots that cling deep into the bedrock, you know it’s a weed. So, too, it is with habits. Good habits are often too easily abandoned...
A participant in one of the distance courses wrote “Hi, Ulla, I would like to let you know how I have been feeling this week. This weekend I was very depressed. I have had to work hard with myself to lift it. I went for a long walk, took a flower essence (mustard), and...
We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardor of its passion, but by its strength and constancy. – Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 – 43 BC This old wisdom of strength and constancy requires skills, skills we don’t learn at school but in the hard lessons of life. You can learn them before...