Love

Love means to love that which is unlovable, or it is no virtue at all - G.K. Chesterton

Love is where a relationship shifts beyond the obvious, rational, beyond the transactional, beyond ?what?s in it for me? Love is where fulfilment, enjoyment, engagement, passion and meaning start. Love is where we breakthrough from being units of production to being human. Love is where we step out from the grey, bland mass and step into a world of colour, light and flavour - Neil Crofts

Love is the term we use to describe the historical delusion that we are no longer alone in the world? - Jacques Lacan

Love is the difficult realisation that something other than onself is real - Iris Murdoch

Love is the act of intelligently and sensibly sharing your knowledge, networks, and compassion with your business partners...Behave this way not because you expect something in return -- a quid pro quo -- but because it's the right way to behave...the three critical drivers of professional success, the three elemental particles of love in business. They are knowledge, networks, and compassion. To be an impact player in business, you simply have to know more than most other people know. That means taking the power of ideas seriously, reading books voraciously, and developing a system of organising what you've learned. But all of your knowledge won't amount to much if you don't have a network of people to share it with -- and enough compassion for the people in that network to understand that your success is a direct result of their success. - Yahoo senior executive Tim Sanders, January 2002 http://www.fastcompany.com/online/55/love.html

Love is the act of intelligently and sensibly sharing your knowledge, networks, and compassion with your business partners. The secret to being a high-impact leader and the essence of individual and corporate success: Learn as much as you can as quickly as you can and share your knowledge aggressively; expand your network of people who share your values and connect as many of them with each other as possible; and, perhaps most important, be as openly human as you can be and find the courage to express genuine emotion in the harried, pressure-filled world of work. And one last point: Behave this way not because you expect something in return -- a quid pro quo -- but because it's the right way to behave...the three critical drivers of professional success, the three elemental particles of love in business. They are knowledge, networks, and compassion. To be an impact player in business, you simply have to know more than most other people know. That means taking the power of ideas seriously, reading books voraciously, and developing a system of organising what you've learned. But all of your knowledge won't amount to much if you don't have a network of people to share it with -- and enough compassion for the people in that network to understand that your success is a direct result of their success. - Yahoo senior executive Tim Sanders, January 2002 http://www.fastcompany.com/online/55/love.html

Love is revealed to be like freedom, only a starting point: then many more choices have to be made - Theodore Zeldin, Intimate History of Humanity, p127

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

It takes a long time for people to recognize their soul-mates when they have too limited an idea of who they are themselves - Theodore Zeldin, Intimate History of Humanity

Despite the daily news, ninety-nine percent of humanity did not commit any murder, act of violence or rape - Robert Muller