love is a practice

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. If you are not capable of generating that kind of energy toward yourself - if you are not capable of taking care of yourself, of nourishing yourself, of protecting yourself - it is very difficult to take care of another person. In the Buddhist teaching, it's clear that to love oneself is the foundation of the love of other people. Love is a practice. Love is truly a practice.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

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Patty
[this is good]
Bookmole
Good to see you back - hope the hiatus was because of a good thing!
Sujatin
Thanks, Bookmole. It was just a case of over tired, overwhelmed, spending time on Twitter, Facebook, 43things, then realising that I prefer blogging.

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