“The environment is not an "other" to us. It is not a collection of things that we encounter. Rather, it is part… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
“Humanity is not an aggregate of individuals, a community of thinkers, each of whom is guaranteed from the outset to be able… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
“Modern amorists are sometimes taken aback at the prospect of investing in a relationship with no guarantee of reward. It is precisely… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
“In a dazzling vote of confidence for form over substance, our culture fawns over the fleetingness of being “in love” while discounting… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
“Every specific human being, however, thinks, judges, imagines, wills and expresses himself or herself in a unique, dissimilar, and unrepeatable mode--a mode… — Christos Yannaras Copy Share Image
“Loving is limbically distinct from in love. Loving is mutuality ; loving is synchronous attunement and modulation. As such, adult love depends… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
“Advances in communication technology foster a false fantasy of togetherness by transmitting the impression of contact- phone calls, faxes, e-mail- without its… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
“Mutuality has tumbled into undeserved obscurity by the primacy our society places on the art of the deal. The prevailing myth reaching… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
“Relatedness is vital in a time when so many people suffer from social deafness. Emotional insensitivity being caused by a redoubtable “tin… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Hygge offers space for both reverie and relatedness. The heat of an open fire draws us close. Its shadow gives us a… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
“The destructive effects of video games are not on boys' cognitive abilities or their reaction times, but on their motivation and their… — Leonard Sax Copy Share Image
“In all of its varied and protean forms, love is the tether binding our whirling lives. Without that biological anchor, all of… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
“Limbic pursuits sink slowly and steadily lower on America’s list of collective priorities. Top-ranking items remain the pursuit of wealth, physical beauty,… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
“Relatedness and interaction between individuals may have lost their drive and liability. In our contemporary “brave new world", traditional trust or generous… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Cultural messages inform the populace that if they aren't perpetually electric they are missing out on the pinnacle of relatedness. Every pop-cultural… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
“I have always swung back and forth between alienation and relatedness. As a child, I would run away from the beatings, from… — Wendy Rose Copy Share Image
“Being well regulated in relatedness is the deeply gratifying state that people seek ceaselessly in romance, religions, and cults; in husbands and… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
“All of us, when we engage in relatedness, fall under the gravitational influence of another’s emotional world, at the same time that… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
“In their writing on education, Deci and Ryan proceed from the principle that humans are natural learners and children are born creative… — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
“it’s in our nature to seek both autonomy and relatedness. We often seek support from others to undertake new adventures in our… — Kent Hoffman Copy Share Image
“People differ in their proficiency at tracing the outlines of another self, and thus their ability to love also varies.” — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
“Relatedness - whether imagined or lived out face-to-face - is a social fact, and it is not limited to "kinship" as mapped… — Naomi Leite Copy Share Image
“To be aware of a tenderness so you can look. into the eyes of another and feel what strikes the strings is… — Jayita Bhattacharjee Copy Share Image
“The alternative to the free market consumer culture is a set of covenants that supports neighborly disciplines, rather than market disciplines, as… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“Because loving is reciprocal physiologic influence, it entails a deeper and more literal connection than most realize. Limbic regulation affords lovers the… — Thomas Lewis Copy Share Image
