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Feeling In Love Or Lovingly Toward Another

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all

the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. ~Rumi

Like many emoAons, love is one that grows as it is expressed.
Love can be many things – words, acAons, feelings. But mostly it is

that feeling you feel when you want to be kind to someone. When

you care. Although it is a feeling that originates in you, it is
directed toward, and inspired by, another.
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“RomanAc love is a universal experience - deeply imbedded in
What a grand thing, to be loved!
the human brain,” according to noted anthropologist and love
What a grander thing s<ll, to love!
expert Helen Fisher. The feeling of love is as basic as any other
~ Victor Hugo
human emoAon. Closely Aed to compassion, love is an insAnct
According to the Dali Lama, that allows us to feel connecAon, understanding and acceptance.

“Love is the absence of judgment.” As deeply social beings we have evolved to love and connect in

Isn’t that what we all crave? order to survive as a species.

Here are a few words that illustrate feeling in love or lovingly toward another:

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