But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.

All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters.

It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

We all may have prejudices, but we're not all part of a system that reinforces, reinvents and reaffirms itself every day of our lives, systemically.

The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet al the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb.

Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that would be even more alienated and violent if caring women did not do the work of teaching men who have lost touch with themselves how to love again. This labor of love is futile only when the men in question refuse to awaken, refuse growth. At this point it is a gesture of self-love for women to break their commitment and move on.