"Embracing love ethic means that we utilize all dimensions of love — "care, commitment, trust, responsibility, respect and knowledge" — in our everyd… - bell hooks

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

When we are loving, we openly and honestly express care, affection, responsibility, respect, commitment, and trust.

To fulfill that mission, my teachers made sure they “knew” us. They knew our parents, our economic status, where we worshipped, what our homes were like, and how we were treated in the family.

We spend a lifetime undoing the damage caused by cruelty, neglect, and all manner of lovelessness experienced in our families of origin and in relationships where we simply where we simply did not know what to do.

We cannot know love if we remain unable to surrender our attachment to power, if any feeling of vulnerability strikes terror in our hearts. Lovelessness torments.