"To know love we have to tell the truth to ourselves and to others. Creating a false se lf to mask fears and insecurities has become so common that many of us forget who we are and what we feel underneath the pretense. Breaking through this denial is always the first step in uncovering our longing to"
"When feminism first began, women talked openly about our desires to know men better, to love them for who they really are. We talked about our desires to be loved for who we really are (i.e., to be accepted in our physical and spiritual beings rather than feeling we had to make ourselves into a fant"
"The wounded child inside many males is a boy who, when he first spoke his truths, was silenced by paternal sadism, by a patriarchal world that did not want him to claim his true feelings. The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become some"
"Most psychologically and/or physically abused children have been taught by parenting adults that love can coexist with abuse. And in extreme cases that abuse is an expression of love. This faulty thinking often shapes our adult perceptions of love. So that just as we would cling to the notion that t"
"Spiritual life is first and foremost about committment to a way of thinking and behaving that honors principles of inter-being and interconnectedness."
"I have been astonished by hearing individuals who inherited wealth in childhood warn against sharing resources because people needing help should work for money in order to appreciate its value. Inherited wealth and/or substantial material resources are rarely talked about in the mass media because "
"The rugged individual who relies on no one else is a figure who can only exist in a culture of domination where a privileged few use more of the world's resources than the many who must daily do without. Worship of individualism has in part led us to the unhealthy culture of narcissism that is so al"
All the dimensions of love- care, commitment, trust, responsibility, respect and knowledge. 爱是反对统治和恐惧,是自我革命,是选择和意愿。爱不等于relationship,爱是一种能改造人的力量。plus,我终于解开这两年的困惑,爱区别于其他轻松的情感是因之需要sacrifice and surrender,当一个人做好了付出这些的准备,才能真正通向爱。作者是怎么能做到一生都致力于研究和呼吁这样的爱?在江河日下的世界里,bellhook体现了一个人类的无限勇敢和美德。
当我们没有关于爱的定义和新的语言的时候就无法爱。爱是一种选择,是滋养彼此精神的成长的行动,是看见真实的彼此和接受,是知识的交换、社群、劳作。尤其留意了关于浪漫的一章,批判了文化对falling in love的神秘性的崇拜让爱脱离了选择和对自己行为的责任,直指浪漫爱对人类精神有害,实际也让我们远离真正的“爱”。