Tag: Consciousness

‘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