#relationships

Often we are identified with either the inner man or woman, while the other side is hidden and unexpressed. Outer relationships are a mirror of the relationship and communication between our own inner man and female side. Sometimes one side is dominant, while the other side is submissive. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#communication #creativity #female #growth #inner-man-and-woman

When we have developed a trust in both our inner man and woman and they can nourish, support, communicate and cooperate with each other, a love begins to flow between them. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#growth #inner-man-and-woman #joy #love #relationships

Through becoming aware of how the inner man and woman relates and communicates inside ourselves, it creates a joy and satisfaction in the three life areas that they influence: our meditation and inner growth, our relationships and our work and creativity. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#creativity #inner-growth #inner-man-and-woman #joy #meditation

misgivings, n. Last night, I got up the courage to ask you if you regretted us. "There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more. ↗

— David Levithan

#definition #love #relationships #courage

Our love was a two-person game. At least until one of us died, and the other became a murderer.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#funny #game #humor #life #love

I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day. ↗

— Brene Brown

#connection #courage #relationships #courage

It's always hard to remember love - years pass and you say to yourself, Was I really in love, or was I just kidding myself? Was I really in love, or was I just pretending he was the man of my dreams? Was I really in love, or was I just desperate? ↗

— Nora Ephron

#illusion #love #relationships #true-love #wisdom

Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt. ↗

— Ernest Becker

#relationships #death

The only thing she really enjoyed was a funeral. You knew where you were with a corpse. Nothing more could happen to it. But while there was life there was fear. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#life #relationships #death

The discovery of her life was that she herself didn't actually need money, apart from a little cash for those relationships with taxi drivers and officials of the Great Western Railway which can only be expressed financially. ↗

— Elizabeth Ironside

#women #death