All about love hooks6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() And as a result, we will both love people differently and change our definition of what it looks like when someone loves us. This, she posits, will help us to alter both our perspective and our definition of love. Instead, we should borrow from the classic old adage which posits, “Love is a verb,” and think about love as a continuous action rather than a feeling that comes and goes. But the author argues that we shouldn’t think of love as a feeling at all. ![]() hooks is in the business of life-changing, really, whether she's teaching us how to love in the face of a planet of lovelessness, or teaching us to. Because we think of love as a feeling, we often make decisions - and base our definition of love - on the presence (or lack) of that feeling in our lives. It came to me at just the right second (by which I mean, I took it from the house where I was house-sitting at just the right second), and I have taken it straight to heart. ![]() So, what can we do? How can we clear up these misconceptions and find the true definition of love? How can we heal our pain? The author suggests that the answer is simple: we need to change our perspective. The world is full of so much pain and, sadly, a good deal of it occurs because we are so confused about love. With the prevalence of these misconceptions, it’s no surprise that people wind up using and abusing each other or breaking each other’s hearts. ![]()
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