Beka’s Reviews > All About Love: New Visions > Status Update

"When we see love as a combination of trust, commitment, care, respect, knowledge, + responsibility, we can work on developing these qualities, or, if they are already a part of who we are, we can learn to extend them to ourselves."

"Using a working definition of love that tells us it is the action we take on behalf of our own or another's *growth of spirit* provides us with a beginning blueprint for working on the issue of self-love."

"Consumer culture in particular encourages lies. Advertising is one of the cultural mediums that has the most sanctioned lying. Keeping people in a constant state of lack, in perpetual desire, strengthens the marketplace economy. Lovelessness is a boon to consumerism."

"In today's world we are taught to fear the truth, to believe it always hurts. We are encouraged to see honest people as naive, as potential lovers. Bombarded with cultural propaganda ready to instill in all of us the notion that lies are more important, that truth does not matter, we are all potential victims."

"Love is as love does, and it is our responsibility to give children love. When we love children we acknowledge by our every action that they are not our property, that they have rights -- that we respect and uphold their rights.
Without justice there can be no love."

"When we are loving we openly + honestly express care, affection, responsibility, respect, commitment, + trust.

Definitions are vital starting points for the imagination. What we cannot imagine cannot come into being. A good definition marks our starting point + lets us know where we want to end up. We move toward a desired destination, chart the journey, create a map."