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Attention is Love
The feminine is presence, and relatedness, and a heart that can open so that when you meet another person you actually are seeing that person’s authentic self. What meaning does human life have if nobody has ever seen you?
I can’t tell you the number of people — men and women — who have sat in my office sobbing, saying, “Nobody ever saw me. Nobody ever had time to listen….
… Take time to listen to your dreams, to write them down. Take time to recognize that there are things going on within you that need to be felt, or said, or lived, or grieved. Pay attention to these things both in yourself and in the people in your life. Pay attention to the authentic self.…
— Marion Woodman
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WHAT IS LOVE?
‘When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.’
— Billy — age 4
A four year old boy whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman’s yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there…
When his mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, ‘Nothing, I just helped him cry.’
