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  1. bell hooks _ All About Love: New Visions

    The search for love continued even in the face of great odds.
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  2. bell hooks _ All About Love: New Visions

    We have power as consumers. We can exercise that power all the time by not choosing to invest time, energy or funds to support the production of mass media images that do not reflect life-enhancing values, that undermine a love ethic."
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  3. bell hooks _ All About Love: New Visions

    Cultures of domination rely on the cultivation of fear as a way to ensure obedience. In our society we make much of love and say little about fear. Yet we are all terribly afraid most of the time. As a culture we are obsessed with the notion of safety. Yet we do not question why we live in states of extreme anxiety and dread. Fear is the primary force upholding systems of domination. It promotes the desire for separation, the desire not to be known. When we are taught that safety always lies in sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat. When we choose to love we choose to move against fear - against alienation and separation. The choice to love is the choice to connect - to find ourselves in the other
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  4. bell hooks _ All About Love: New Visions

    Culture of domination rely on the cultivation of fear as a way to ensure obedience. In our society we make much of love and say little about fear. Yet we are all terribly afraid most of the time. {...} Yet we do not question why we live in states of extreme anxiety and dread. {...} Fear promotes the desire for separation, the desire not to be known. When we are taught that safety lies with sameness, then difference will appear as a threat. When we choose love, we move against fear and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect to find ourselves in the other.
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  5. bell hooks _ All About Love: New Visions

    In truth, true love is all about work.
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  6. bell hooks _ All About Love: New Visions

    I learned that we may meet a true love and that our lives may be transformed by such an encounter even when it does not lead to sexual pleasure, committed bonding, or even sustained contact. The myth of true love-that fairy-tale vision of two souls who meet, join, and live happily ever thereafter-is the stuff of childhood fantasy. Yet many of us, female and male, carry these fantasies into adulthood and are unable to cope with the reality of what it means to either have an intense life-altering connection that will not lead to an ongoing relationship or to be in a relationship. True love does not always lead to happily ever after, and even when it does sustaining love still takes work.
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  7. bell hooks _ All About Love: New Visions

    We see in movies, people are represented as being in love who never talk with one another, who fall into bed without ever discussing their bodies, their sexual needs, their likes and dislikes. {...} the message is {...} that ignorance gives love its erotic and transgressive edge. These messages are often brought to us by profiteering producers who have no clue about the art of loving. {...} They do not know how to genuinely portray loving interaction.
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  8. bell hooks _ All About Love: New Visions

    The choice to love is a choice to connect--- to find ourselves in the other.
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  9. bell hooks _ All About Love: New Visions

    Through the practice of compassion and forgiveness, I was able to sustain my appreciation for her work and cope with the grief and disappointment I felt about the loss of this relationship. Practicing compassion enabled me to understand why she might have acted as she did and to forgive her. Forgiving means that I am able to see her as a member of my community still, one who has a place in my heart should she wish to claim it.
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  10. bell hooks _ All About Love: New Visions

    Spirituality and spiritual life gives us the strength to love.
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  11. bell hooks _ All About Love: New Visions

    Self-acceptance is hard for many of us. There is a voice inside that is constantly judging, first ourselves and then others.
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  12. bell hooks _ All About Love: New Visions

    At times women find it difficult to hear what men have to say when what they tell us does not conform to our fantasies of who they are or who we want them to be.
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