Esther Perel: The Constant Dance Between Me and You

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December 18, 2019 a project of ServiceSpace Love is at once an affirmation and a transcendence of who we are. - Esther Perel - Esther Perel: The Constant Dance Between Me and You "We all come into this world with a need for connection and protection and with a need for freedom. And from the first moment on, we will be straddling these two needs -- what is me, and what is us? The common parlance today is, I need to first work on myself; I need to first feel good about me; solve me before I can be with somebody else, and I find that also a strange thought. You know who you are, you discover who you are in the presence of another. So this constant dance between me and you, between I and thou, is at the core of being human." Therapist Esther Perel shares more in this thought-provoking On Being interview. { read more } Be The Change For more inspiration read this short passage by Barbara Frederickson, "Love is Not an Emotion." { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Are You Walking Through Life in an Underslept State? Pushing Through: A Poem for Grieving Hearts 6 Habits of Hope How to Be Yourself Mary Oliver: Instructions for Living A Life 7 Simple Ways to Cultivate Comfort Last Lecture 12 Truths I Learned from Life and Writing DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 244,968 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More