The more two people open to each other, the more this wide-openness also brings to the surface all the obstacles to it: their deepest, darkest wound…

- John Welwood

You are flawed, you are stuck in old patterns, you become carried away with yourself. Indeed you are quite impossible in many ways. And still, you ar…

- John Welwood

Great love -- the kind that illumines and transforms us -- always includes a keen awareness of limitation as well. Though love may inspire us to expa…

- John Welwood

If there is one thing I've learned in thirty years as a psychotherapist, it is this: If you can let your experience happen, it will release its knots…

- John Welwood

Not knowing that we can be loved for who we truly are prevents us from trusting in love itself, and this in turn causes us to turn away from life and…

- John Welwood

A soul connection not only inspires us to expand, but also forces us to confront whatever stands in the way of that expansion.

- John Welwood

Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins. Feel the love, the longing and the fear i…

- John Welwood

There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it. How many times in you…

- John Welwood

I would define love very simply: as a potent blend of openness and warmth, which allows us to make real contact, to take delight in and appreciate, a…

- John Welwood