The document discusses love, respect, and relationships. It defines love as valuing someone's interests and needs as much as your own and that love requires conscious practice. Respect is accepting others from their perspective and appreciating their life experiences. Relationships are conscious choices that can be short or long-term, with love not requiring the conditional aspects of relationships. Successful relationships require compatibility, shared values, and adjustments over time through hard work. Respect is the basis for love. Appreciation, attraction and love are different, with love requiring focusing on others' needs above your own.
3. LOVE
To value someone's best interests and
needs as much as you should value your
own.
Love is a practice
4. Respect
Accepting someone from the vantage
point of their own life and appreciating
them for the life they are getting to
endure. A deeper understanding that
everyone suffers through life in their own
way
Respect is a skill
5. Relationships
A conscious choice made to enable a
transaction - physical, mental, emotional
or material - relationships can be
short-term, long-term or lifelong
Relationships are conditional - love need
not be
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Relationships are hard work
Practicing love makes
relationships easy and
enjoyable
Love is not enough for a
relationship to sustain - as
relationships are conditional
they need compatibility,
alignment and adjustment
Self-love & Self-respect are
the prerequisites to be able to
love others or respect others. If
we are not fully integrated
with-in ourselves as wholes -
we cant truly love others for
what they are
Respect is the basis to Love -
Without respect there cant be love
7. Attraction is pull or want for something -
Feelings of highest bliss in anticipation of
having something - A desperate suffering
at the same time due to its lack.
Appreciation is to recognize the worth of
something and valuing it, while positively
recognising its attributes.
What is
not LOVE?
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Appreciation, Attraction and Love
are not the same things
Love is to treat something by keeping
its best interests and needs in front -
as much as you would keep your
own. Love is a practice
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8. Appreciation or Attraction doesnt
imply love - but they can make love
seem easy - but love has to be a
conscious practice
Presence of Love - makes relationships
easy - but you still have to be conscious
about compatibility, alignment of values
and adjustments you want to make -
relationships are work
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What is
not LOVE?
9. Love + Respect + Long-term
Relationship = Connection
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How do you
relate to a
Business?
Co-Founders
Respect + Relationship = Trust
Love is an optional ingredient)
Investors
Respect + Relationship = Trust
Love is an optional ingredient)
Employees
10. Love + Respect + Long-term/Short
Term Relationship = Appreciation
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How do you
relate to a
Business?
Customers
Love + Respect + Lifelong
relationship = Kindness
Your-Self
Is nothing but Love = Your joy of
Self-Expression
Your Business