One of the most prevalent forms of listening is done with the hopes to fortify our own preexisting opinion. One could say that it is, in fact, not listening at all. This lack of listening keeps us in the dark with the company of our own limited point-of-view. If what someone is saying lines up…

The truly given gift will never result in loss. When the gift or acts we share in our relationship are truly gifts they cannot result in resentment. What happens in many relationship is that we give something, not as a gift, but as a loan that is meant to accrue interest. We give something away…

Go back to the moment in your memory that you can recall falling in love with your beloved.  You may or may not currently be with that beloved at this moment but it makes no difference for this. Something incredible happens when we first fall in love. When we first fall in love we have…