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 Culture
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- The
Culture of Love is closely allied to Self-Love,
to the Culture of
Touch
and Natural
Family
Living, and to Solar
Culture.
- Book
Why Love Matters
by Sue Gerhardt. It
explains why
loving relationships are essential to brain development in the early
years, and
how these early interactions can have lasting consequences for future
emotional
and physical health.
Daniel Goleman, the author of Emotional
Intelligence, says that this book is 'a must-read for
every parent, teacher, physician and politician'.
- Book
The
Scientification of Love by Dr Michel Odent. As this
review states, Love is a strategy for human
survival. Buy the 1999 edition here
(USA) or here
(UK); note there is also a later 2014 edition. Or listen to a podcast
on this subject here.
- Beware
of 'trauma bonds', of love without healthy boundaries. “When
you are sufficiently
desperate for validation, even abuse can feel like love.” (Jeff
Vogel, albeit he was writing about video game development,
posted 7
September 2016, accessed 8 September 2016) The
bestseller book Women Who Love Too Much by
Robin Norwood can help those who are in obsessive relationships, who
believe love means being in pain. Also see BBC.
- Be
wary of blindly loving gurus.
Rather you can - even must - become Love! If you need a physical symbol
for God, rather try
the Sun
(as I do).
- In
fact, you are Love - you just may not have (re)connected with it yet.
The animal
in
you has a template of Love. The angel
in you is truly Love.
By love, the pain becomes
healing. (Rumi)
Let your teacher be love itself. (Rumi)
In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion. (Rumi)
Forget the nonsense of there and here, race, nation, religion, starting point and destination. You are soul, and you are love. (Rumi)
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. (Rumi)
Resources
- Charter
for Compassion
(Wikipedia) [Also
see Karen Armstrong's website].
- The
Love Foundation
[Website inspiring people to love
unconditionally].
- It
is time to imagine our entire politics in loving terms
(Philip McKibbin,
The Guardian, 2017)
[Love
is central to our personal relationships. Why can’t it also
guide our political exchange?].
- I
Don't Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People
(Kayla Chadwick,
HuffPost, 2017).
- Why
being kind could help you live longer (BBC, 2019).
- If
the [Covid-19] pandemic taught us anything, it is that 'care' has to be
central to politics
(Lynne Segal and Andreas Chatzidakis,
The Guardian, 2021) [Care work, paid or unpaid,
is mostly unsupported. For this to change, state institutions must
themselves become caring.].
- It
is crunch time for humanity. We need everyone to start leading like a
woman (Arwa
Mahdawi,
The Guardian, 2021)
[Every crisis the world faces is a crisis of leadership. The skills we
need to lean into now are those considered
‘unmanly’
– empathy, collaboration and altruism.].
- How to Stop Fascism (Roger Hallam, 2024) [It's through connection, not ideology, that we will win the revolution].
- 🤍 The Love Paradigm: How Mini-Assemblies Can Save Us (Roger Hallam, 2024) [Forget the Trump panic — this is how tiny, love-fueled assemblies could topple the system and ignite a revolution].
- Treating Matter with Loving Care: Marie Louise von Franz in Interview (The Jungian Aion, YouTube, 2024) [3m7s video.].
- Resisting Fascism with a Good Heart (George Monbiot, Bluesky, 2025) [Also here].
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When
life feels lost, find Love.
(Seen at a café)
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