"The less you demand total fulfillment from relationships,……" — John Welwood
"The less you demand total fulfillment from relationships, the more you can appreciate them for the beautiful tapestries they are, in which absolute and relative, perfect and imperfect, infinite and finite are marvelously interwoven. You can stop fighting the shifting tides of relative love and learn to ride them instead. And you come to appreciate more fully the simple, ordinary heroism involved in opening to another person and forging real intimacy."
—
John Welwood
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
30 Quotes by John Welwood
John Welwood has 30 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins. Feel…
-
Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct…
-
The light of unconditional love awakens the dormant seed potentials of the soul.
-
I would define love very simply: as a potent blend of openness and warmth, which allows us to make real…
-
A soul connection is a resonance between two people who respond to the essential beauty of each other's individual natures,…
-
We already have so much abundance. We truly do. We need not search too far. It is within. The reason…
-
Awareness born of love is the only force that can bring healing and renewal. Out of our love for another…
-
The warm and radiant yes of the heart is perfect, like the sun, in bringing all things to life and…
-
The more two people open to each other, the more this wide-openness also brings to the surface all the obstacles…
-
Magic is a sudden opening of the mind to the wonder of existence. It is a sense that there is…
-
The words "I love you," spoken in moments of genuine appreciation, wonder, or caring arise from something perfectly pure within…
-
Not knowing that we can be loved for who we truly are prevents us from trusting in love itself, and…
See all 30 quotes by John Welwood »
More Absolute Quotes
This quote is filed under Absolute Quotes,
one of 1,809 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become…
— Giorgio Armani
-
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
— Lord Acton
-
A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
-
But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
— Mikhail Bakunin
-
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
— Henry Adams
-
What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially…
— Dave Barry
-
No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
— Bruce Barton
-
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
— Simone de Beauvoir
-
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas…
— Simone de Beauvoir
-
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
— Sarah Bernhardt
-
The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
— Aneurin Bevan
-
Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
— Theodor Adorno
See all 1,809 Absolute Quotes »