
Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts

With true love, you feel complete in yourself; you don’t need something from outside.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
Inside each of us is a great being, someone peaceful, full of light, understanding, and compassion. This person carries a sword of understanding that cuts through the bonds of suffering. With great understanding, we see the way out of our bondage. We discover the lightness and compassion necessary to love someone else. We can awaken this great pers
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Blinded by attachment, sooner or later we fall into sensual love. Anxiety mounts day by day, just as water fills a pond drop by drop.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
We are all motivated by love. Love can be our greatest joy or—when it gets confused with craving and attachment—our greatest suffering.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
Both people have to heal on their own so they feel at ease in themselves; then they can become a home for each other. Otherwise, all that we share in physical intimacy is our loneliness and suffering.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
When we’re trapped by sensual love, we spend our time worrying that the other person will leave or betray us.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
Otherwise, the union of two bodies becomes very monotonous after a time. Even when we’re with our partner, we continue to have the feeling of being alone. So we look for another person to be with.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
Our feeling leads to a perception.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Fidelity: How to Create a Loving Relationship That Lasts
When we see a form or hear a sound, we recognize it and we have a feeling and a perception about it.