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Spirituality and spiritual life give us the strength to love.

Spirituality and spiritual life give us the strength to love.

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Love, Spiritual, Giving

Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.

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Love, Giving, Self Love

If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.

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Self, Agency, Giving

If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.

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Children, Self, Giving

To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.

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Love, Believe, Giving

I often find it easier to be teaching or giving to others, and often struggle with the place of my own pleasure and joy.

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Struggle, Teaching, Giving

Giving generously in romantic relationships, and in all other bonds, means recognizing when the other person needs our attention. Attention is an important resource.

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Mean, Giving, Important

Remember, care is a dimension of love, but simply giving care does not mean we are loving.

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Mean, Giving, Doe
bell hooks (2018). “All About Love: New Visions”, p.8, HarperCollins

Only love can heal the wounds of the past. However, the intensity of our woundedness often leads to a closing of the heart, making it impossible for us to give or receive the love that is given to us.

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Heart, Past, Giving
bell hooks (2018). “All About Love: New Visions”, p.26, HarperCollins

I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining, come to understand that when black people come together to celebrate and rejoice in black critical thinking, we do so not to exclude or to separate, but to participate more fully in world community. However, we must first be able to dialogue with one another, to give one another subject-to-subject recognition that is an act of resistance that is part of the decolonizing, anti-racist process.

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Thinking, Expression, Giving

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