Love lets go. Need holds on. This is the way you can tell the difference between need and love. Let go of expectation, let go of requirements and rules and regulations that you would impose on your loved ones.
Interpretation
Love is about freedom, while need is about attachment.
This quote emphasizes the distinction between love and need by highlighting that true love involves letting go of expectations and the desire to control others. It teaches us that when we truly love someone, we allow them the freedom to be themselves without imposing rules or requirements, whereas need often stems from insecurity and possessiveness.
In practice
In a relationship counseling session, to illustrate the importance of healthy love.
What you hope, you will eventually believe. _x000D_ What you believe you will eventually know. What you know, you will eventually create. What you create, _x000D_ you will eventually experience. What you experience, _x000D_ you will eventually express. What you express, _x000D_ you will eventually become. _x000D_ This is the formula for all of life.
Fear and guilt are your only enemies. Love and awareness are your true friends. Do not confuse one with the other, for one will kill you, while the other gives you life.
Your whole life is a message. Every act is an act of self-definition . Everything you think, say and do sends a message about you.
When you find peace within, you also find that you can do without. This means simply that you no longer need the things of your outside world, and not needing is a great freedom.
Giving up is not the answer. Neither is giving in. Stand your ground. There is a way of doing that without having to be combative. There is a way of hanging on to your true self, and demonstrating it, without resorting to aggression. But giving up and giving in is not the way. Simply and quietly claiming your right to be You is the way.
You, and you alone, get to determine whether you are going to react positively about something or negatively about something - or, interestingly, have no reaction at all. Your emotions are entirely under your control. Your feelings are what you want them to be.
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.
Follow the Golden Rule. Be kind to your neighbors, love them as much as you would love yourself, do unto others.
Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing
Every mouth you’ve ever kissed was just practice. All the bodies you’ve ever undressed and ploughed in to were preparing you for me. I don’t mind tasting them in the memory of your mouth. _x000D_ Was it a long journey? Did it take you long to find me? _x000D_ You’re here now, welcome home.
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