All About Love - New Visions - bell hooks
Summary
- She explains the need to approach life from the point of view of showing love in all relationships.
How I discovered it
- Recommendation from a friend
How the book changed me
- This book has made me, and will continue to make me think deeply on my own relationships and how i can do better.
Details
- When we are loving we openly and honestly express care, affection, responsibility, respect, commitment, and trust.
- Most organized religion espouses the values of a secular society
- Unethical behaviour does not lead to happiness
- Love is based on knowlege
- Materialism leads to a world of narcissism
- Addiction is linked to a lust for material consumption
- The world believes that love is only needed when it is filling our needs
- Love does not mean that we will not face negative things
- Build a community wherever you are
- Maintaining control cannot exist with love
- Love requires honesty
- Give generously in our relationships
- True love results in change
- We need other people to survive