We really don't know how to love each other because we haven't really learned to love ourselves. In many instances, not all, it's not malicious. We've just been conditioned to such bad behavior.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
Love is a serious mental disease.
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.
Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature.
The ego mind both professes its desire for love and does everything possible to repel it, or if it gets here anyway, to sabotage it. That is why dealing with issues like control, anger, and neediness is the most important work in preparing ourselves for love.
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