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“Most males are not told that they need to be upheld by love every day. Sexist thinking usually prevents them from acknowledging their longing for love or their acceptance of a female as their guide on love’s path.”

“To maintain and satisfy greed, one must support domination. And the world of domination is always a world without love.“

Fantastic conversation in these pages about compassion vs greed and materialism/consumerism vs community.

“Greed violates the spirit of connectedness and community that is natural to human survival. It wipes out individual recognition of the needs and concerns of everyone, replacing this awareness with harmful self-centeredness.“

“When love is present the desire to dominate an exercise power cannot rule the day.”

“Patriarchy, like any system of domination (for example, racism), relies on socializing everyone to believe that in all human relations there is an inferior and superior party, one person is strong, the other weak and that it is therefore natural for the powerful to rule over the powerless. To those who support patriarchal thinking, maintaining power and control is acceptable by whatever means.“

“…It promotes the desire for separation, the desire not to be known. When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat. When we choose to love we choose to move against fear – against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect – to find ourselves in the other.”

“Cultures of domination rely on the cultivation of fear as a way to ensure obedience….As a culture we are obsessed with the notion of safety. Yet we do not question why we live in states of extreme anxiety and dread. Fear is the primary force upholding structures of domination…“

“Love as a process that has been refined, alchemically altered as it moves from state to state, is that ‘perfect love’ that can cast out fear.“

“…love as an active force that should lead us into greater communion with the world.”