We’re talking about love - what is genuine love, self-love, love as a practice, and so much more. Centered around the understanding that our love for ourselves shapes our capacity to love others, we explore how we can embody love from our limitless internal source of love that is our innate ability to love unconditionally. Dive into this juicy episode or jump around the episode (we added timestamps below) to learn how to experience more love by connecting to and embodying love from within. After breaking down our ideas and beliefs around love in Part 1, Part 2 dives into the four key aspects of genuine love and how to practice each beginning with ourselves.

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We dive deep into those four aspects of true love (02:08): loving-kindness (02:24), compassion (05:32), joy (09:05), and equanimity (13:43). Bringing us to defining unconditional love (16:05), which is empowered by these aspects - allowing our love to be healing, transformative, returning to our True Nature, and deeply meaningful (17:19). We then explore love’s ability to return us to our True Nature deeper through The Symposium and Socrates’ definition of the purpose of love compared to another idea of love that shapes our modern conception of love (20:06). Wrapping up the discussion, we concur that love is a practice (29:06), it starts with ourselves, it empowers our conscious living and meaning, and ways to practice each of the four aspects of true love (32:35). Finally, we discover how our ability to love ourselves directly feeds world peace (44:01).

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As Mentioned:

True Love by Thich Nhat Hanh: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781590304044

How to Love Yourself (and Sometimes Other People): https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781401946692

The Other Shore by Thich Nhat Hanh: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781941529140

As It Goes 030 // Making Peace with our Contradictions: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7ha87JtRhsScl3kAk6Vm2P?si=94deca041039461f

The Symposium: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780300056990

The Wisdom of No Escape: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781611806052

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