A Cock-Eyed Optimist?

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“It is far easier, it seems to me, to become a cynic than it is to work beyond disappointments and rise above wounds.  We must be willing to trust again and expect better than we’ve received.  True cynics who believe they have become experts at seeing through people have actually succumbed to a different kind of blindness.  If we want love, it is better to look for the good in people, even if it means being somewhat of a cock-eyed optimist.”

— Leo Buscaglia, Born for Love, p. 81

Love grows when given.

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“The more loving experiences we have, the more we have to bring with us when we focus on a deep, intimate relationship.  The quality of love is not strained when it is shared; rather it is intensified and most assuredly improves with the experience.”

— Leo Buscaglia, Born for Love, p. 77

Only Human Love

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“Perhaps we would feel less frustrated if we could accept the fact that on this earth there is no perfect love, only human love.  Then we could expend our energies appreciating and enhancing the love we have.”

— Leo Buscaglia, Born for Love, p. 75

First Love

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“First love; then do what you do.  First choose peace; then say what you say.  Asking, ‘What should I do?’  ‘What should I say?’ really means, ‘How do I get the outcome I want?’  ‘How do I control this person?’  Seldom are we confused if we make peace and mental wholeness our goal.”

— Hugh Prather, The Little Book of Letting Go, p. 50-51

Letting Go of Control

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“Declining to make control our aim does not mean that we perform the tasks and duties before us sloppily or halfheartedly.  If our purpose is awareness, all things must be done attentively.  If our purpose is wholeness, all things must be done meticulously.  If our purpose is to love, all things must be done with care and beauty.”

— Hugh Prather, The Little Book of Letting Go, p. 48

Love and Equality

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“Those in our lives who make the most meaningful and enduring contributions to who we are have dared to take their place among equals.  The world stares in amazement at the glittering adornments of the ego, but only those who walk beside us in love and equality reach our hearts and transform us.”

–Hugh Prather, The Little Book of Letting Go, p. 20