Why We Need Love In Our Lives

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‘Love is a surrender. You expose your deepest vulnerabilities and give up your illusions of self-mastery.’- David Brooks

‘Love depends on the willingness of each person to be vulnerable and it deepens that vulnerability.’- David Brooks

‘Love leads you out your natural state of self-love.’- David Brooks

‘Love makes other people more vivid to you than you are to yourself.’- David Brooks

Love is submission, not decision.’- David Brooks

‘Love demands that you make a poetic surrender to an inexplicable power without counting the cost.’- David Brooks

We don’t build love; we fall in love, out of control.’- David Brooks

‘Love asks you to discard conditional thinking and to pour out your love in full force and not measure it by tablespoons.’- David Brooks

‘Love is a state of poetic need; it exists on both a higher and a lower plane than logic and calculation.’- David Brooks

‘Love opens up the facility for spiritual awareness. It is an altered state of consciousness that is intense and overwhelming but at the same time effervescent.’- David Brooks

‘… love provides a glimpse of some realm beyond the edge of what we know. It also in a more practical sense enlarges the heart.’- David Brooks

‘Love is like a plow that opens up hard ground and allow things to grow.’- David Brooks

‘The more you love, the more you can love.’- David Brooks

‘Love expands with use.’- David Brooks

‘Love ennobles and transforms.’- David Brooks

David Brooks On The Power Of Love

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According to David Brooks, ‘Love is like an invading army that reminds you that you are not master of your own house. It conquers you little by little, reorganizing your energy levels, reorganizing your sleep patterns, reorganizing your conversational topics, and, toward the end of the process, rearranging the objects of your sexaul desire and even the focus of your attention.’

When you are in love, you can’t thinking about your beloved. You walk through a crowd and think you see her in a vaguely familiar form every few yards. You flip from highs to lows and feel pain at slights that you know are probably trivial or illusory.’

‘Love is the strongest kind of army because it generates no resistance. When the invasion is only half complete, the person being invaded longs to be defeated, fearfully, but utterly and hopelessly.’