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 wounds, their desperation and mistrust, and their rawest emotional trigger points. Just as the sun's warmth causes clouds to arise by prompting the earth to release its moisture, so love's pure openness activates the thick clouds of our emotional wounding, the tight places where we are shut down, where we live in fear and resist love.
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
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
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
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
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…
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
A soul connection not only inspires us to expand, but also forces us to confront whatever stands in the way of that expansion.
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
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…
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
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…
To allow yourself your own experience is the greatest act of self love - John Welwood
To allow yourself your own experience is the greatest act of self love
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