In last Friday’s newsletter, I invited people to participate in Around The Circle Filling In the Blanks, with questions about love.
I really enjoy the repetition of this exercise — I love repetition in general — so I decided to record this for anyone that would like to hear how that repetition sounds out loud.
I feel so grateful to spend time with your minds, hearts, souls, whatever it is that made you want to fill in the blanks. And if you didn’t fill in the blanks, I feel so grateful that you’re here, reading along!
I still see us in this room with wooden floors and mirrored walls, sitting in a circle, trying to articulate what love is and what it can do.
Last week, I asked you all: “What can love do?” and this is how you answered.
I feel most loved when __________.
I feel most loved when someone I love looks me directly in the eyes and smiles.
I feel most loved when i feel seen.
I feel most loved when someone thinks about me and I'm not there.
I feel most loved when I feel worthy of love.
I feel most loved when I am seen
I feel most loved when she kisses me and holds my face.
I feel most loved when adored
I feel most loved when I see you and you see me.
I feel most loved when I feel utterly simple joy from the person who touches at once my mind, heart and body closely to my inner soul.
I feel most loved when someone remembers something I said.
I feel most loved when I am seen.
I feel most loved when someone cooks for me.
I feel most loved when you see me
I feel most loved when we share a deep secret. that ends with us both chuckling.
I feel most loved when I feel understood
When I feel love, I __________.
When I feel love, I feel warm.
When I feel love, I feel it in my chest like a cartoon.
When I feel love, I feel excited and tingly.
When I feel love, I feel safe.
When I feel love, I speak it
When I feel love, I can do anything.
When I feel love, I feel joy
When I feel love, my eyes and heart well up.
When I feel love, I know it is felt both ways
When I feel love, I lose all interest in making plays.
When I feel love, I am nourished.
When I feel love, I feel like a kid falling asleep in the backseat.
When I feel love, I don’t always understand it, but I recognize it and receive it
When I feel love, I want to touch and be touched.
When I feel love, I sense it in my solar plexus
I know I love you, I __________.
I know I love you, I think about you constantly.
I know I love you, I would do almost anything for you.
I know I love you, I'm so excited to spend time with you.
I know I love you, I would wade through life’s drudgery for you.
I know I love you, I hurt when you hurt
I know I love you, I walk through hell with you.
I know I love you, I feel it inside
I know I love you, I want you to be happy.
I know I love you when you smile that way!
I know I love you, I am moving out of Brooklyn to be with you.
I know I love you, I folded your underwear.
I know I love you, I text you every hour I'm not with you.
I know I love you, I am yours
I know I love you, I even like the way your armpits smell, like coming home.
I know I love you, I consider how everything i do affects you
When it comes to love, I’m always asking: __________?
When it comes to love, I’m always asking: why don’t some people get it?
When it comes to love, I’m always asking: what's that got to do with it?
When it comes to love, I'm always asking: why do people need to put so many labels and definitions on it?
When it comes to love, I’m always asking: how should we categorize it (romantic, sexual, platonic) and is it even useful to do so?
When it comes to love, I’m always asking: is it a feeling or an action
When it comes to love, I’m always asking: should we suffer for each other?
When it comes to love, I’m always asking: why am I so lucky to be loved by so many?
When it comes to love, I’m always asking: am I allowing myself to receive as much as I give?
When it comes to love, I’m always asking: why is this so easy?
When it comes to love, I’m always asking: why would anyone care about anything else?
When it comes to love, I’m always asking: what's the point without it?
When it comes to love, I’m always asking: do I really deserve this?
When it comes to love, I’m always asking: why do we portray love as a sudden overwhelming feeling and not a sea of calm
When it comes to love, I'm always asking: why, sometimes, some people can cut off others instead of seeing how much better love is than hate -- or cold distance?
When it comes to love, I’m always asking: why are some forms so prized above others
I want to be loved like __________.
I want to be loved like the sun and a river.
I want to be loved like two russian spies with american cover stories.
I want to be loved like there are no consequences.
I want to be loved like a hot water bottle on cold feet
I want to be loved like a baby but also like an icon
I want to be loved like the ocean.
I want to be loved like I am loved now
I want to be loved like God loves me.
I want to be loved like sunshine loves water and makes a gigantic colorful rainbow!
I want to be loved like I loved her.
I want to be loved like a Saturday night.
I want to be loved like it's the easiest thing in the world.
I want to be loved like the hottest bitch alive!!
I want to be loved like I love others, tenderly.
I want to be loved like a celestial body, like an ant on a log
To create love, you have to __________.
To create love, you have to let it happen.
To create love, you have to trust.
To create love, you have to be willing to fall down the stairs.
To create love, you have to be diligent
To create love, you have to open your arms
To create love, you have to be vulnerable and brave.
To create love, you have to love
To create love, you have to fill your heart with warmth and radiance and let it shine out.
To create love, you have to open up and let it in.
To create love, you have to allow space apart.
To create love, you have to keep noticing.
To create love, you have to love rough edges.
To create love, you have to love yourself
To create love, you have to be open. And humble. And really care.
To create love, you have to pay attention
To love someone or something is to __________.
To love someone or something is to hold it up to the light and look at it.
To love someone or something is to carry them with you.
To love someone or something is to be fully human.
To love someone or something is to let them out from under the microscope’s lens
To love someone or something is to say yes
To love someone or something is to sign up for heartbreak.
To love someone or something is to know God
To love someone or something is to accept them just as they are.
To love someone or something is to know you are not alone.
To love someone or something is to wish them well
To love someone or something is to save them a seat.
To love someone or something is to stay curious.
To love someone or something is to understand
To love someone or something is to want to be there always in their presence.
To love someone or something is to leave enough space for it
I love __________.
I love laughing.
I love my life.
I love the world.
I love laying in my bed
I love holding you
I love my dogs.
I love the peas and kittens, babies and old people
I love my children.
I love you more!
I love love. I love having a lover and being one.
I love a day with nothing to do, with you.
I love reading next to each other.
I love the curves of your body
I love to laugh so hard with someone I love that our eyes get all scrunched up, we guffaw -- and I am so totally lost in the moment that time stops. Also to be so enmeshed in a movie, play or book that I can't think about anything else. Also when I sweat so much from dancing that I am happy tired. And so much more.
I love caring for and being cared for
I love __________.
I love smooth stones and trees.
I love my pets.
I love the birds singing in the trees.
I love when the coffee is neither too weak nor too strong
I love comfort
I love Los Angeles after the rain.
I love amazing food
I love being in nature and having no responsibilities.
I love us!
I love actors.
I love to love ya, baby.
I love when you play with my hair.
I love your laugh
I love being outside, watching the sky and the clouds, the birds soaring, water sparkling and trees swaying in my own special parts of the City.
I love little streams of water flowing into bigger ones
The only thing I know about love is __________.
The only thing I know about love is it’s the only thing, at the end of the day.
The only thing I know about love is that it's real!
The only thing I know about love is it's complicated.
The only thing I know about love is that it’s not a meritocracy, for good and for ill.
The only thing I know about love is it's always changing
The only thing I know about love is it's why we're here.
The only thing I know about love is how good it is to be loved
The only thing I know about love is it's the only thing that's going to save this world.
The only thing I know about love is: it's like a tree that grows with daily nourishment and watering!
The only thing I know about love is that I go crazy without it.
The only thing I know about love is I'm lucky to have it.
The only thing I know about love is that it's all we have.
The only thing I know about love is it’s vast and specific, everywhere and nowhere, impossible to articulate universally and deserved by everyone
The only thing I know about love is that it has many faces and places, all precious to me.
The only thing I know about love is that it is all around you, even if it is not about you
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