The only thing that matters in life is your own opinion about yourself, nobody can destroy your dignity then, because it is not dependent on anybody's opinion.
Love is not manageable, it is simply something that happens, and the moment you try to manage it everything misfire.
When you listen with perfect awareness, then listening becomes possible.
Through true love, you touch inner completeness.
Become alert! Relationship destroys love, destroys the very possibility of its birth.
Start from the body, and then go, slowly slowly, deeper. And don't start with anything else unless you have first solved the primary. If your body is tense, don't start with the mind. Wait. Work on the body. And just small things are of immense help.