What Is Love?: March 2006 Archives

A quote from Bell Hooks
Salvation:Black People and Love:

The capacity to love is so tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be with someone else in a manner that is not about your desire to possess them, but to be with them, to be in union and communion

Love is not demanding, constraining, stiffling or conditional of who you are or want to be. Love should be uplifting and liberating. what many people call love, I believe, is possession. A relatingship, marriage or otherwise, does not conote ownership. What folks call love in this modern society is in many case self love. Much of what we want out of a relationship centers upon "what I want."