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• "Friendship is the expression of our shared being, of love."

  — Rupert Spira

  What is Romantic Love?

• "Love… the felt sense of our shared being."

  — Rupert Spira

  What is Romantic Love?

• "Our external relationships are mirrors for our internal relationship. Others will love us and support us when we learn to love and support ourselves."

  — Margaret Paul

  Inner Bonding

• "… whatever the relationship, whether it be with a mate, a parent, a child, a friend, a coworker, or a professional, the ways we relate with others depend on the relationship we have with our Inner Child."

  — Margaret Paul

  Inner Bonding: Becoming a Loving Adult to Your Inner Child

• "When your relationship exhibits consistently high levels of secure functioning, you and your partner automatically increase the resources you’re able to use for personal development, mutual physical and mental health… You become more resilient as individuals and as a couple, able to manage the slings and arrows of life and its unknowns."

  — Stan Tatkin

  We Do

• "There’s no ideal partner… There’s only the good enough partner who is perfectly imperfect."

  — Stan Tatkin

  We Do

• "Nobody signs up for marriage because they want to be changed by their partner. It doesn’t work. Ever. Go all in or go home. Marriage and commitment can only work if we accept each other wholeheartedly."

  — Stan Tatkin

  We Do

• "For a strong and lasting partnership, both of us must be connected to our own inner feelings, as well willing to be open to learning about the other’s."

  — Margaret Paul

  Inner Bonding

• "Solace and care come from many sources. Others who listen deeply, attentively, and nonjudgmentally can be found in the least expected places. Take note, pay attention, and seek help from those willing to be present with you. Time with these kinds of people can carry you through perilous terrain."

  — Joanne Cacciatore

  Bearing the Unbearable

• "One of the difficulties with shame is that it does not seem to be expressed and released in the same way as other feelings: Sadness and grief are released through crying, anger through yelling and stomping about, fear through screaming and shaking… Though it appears not to discharge, it does seem to dissipate under very special circumstances—the nonjudgmental, accepting contact of another human being."

  — Babette Rothschild

  The Body Remembers

• "The openness of love is timeless. When you are with another being in love, you are sharing your being, your presence. You are just here, together in love."

  — Ram Dass

  Polishing the Mirror

• "When you say, “I fell in love with so-and-so,” what you are really saying is, “So-and-so turns me on to the place in me where I am the ocean of love.”"

  — Ram Dass

  Polishing the Mirror

• "To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves; the crown of life and the school of virtue."

  — C.S. Lewis

  The Four Loves

• "Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities."

  — C.S. Lewis

  The Four Loves

• "The true quality of our love is exposed by the stresses and strains of our relationships with others, especially those with whom we work the closest."

  — Alexander Strauch, Robert L. Peterson

  Agape Leadership