Archive for January, 2010

Self-Love: You Gotta Have It

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Key to everything I’ve said so far about love is self-love. And this cannot be overstated. Self-love is not only an essential part of understanding love in its full infinitude and power, it is the crucial and necessary starting point.

Our world quickly turns self-love into something ’selfish’ or narcissistic. Those in positions of power and influence don’t encourage self-love. It is way too problematic for them. It is so much harder to parent, teach, employ, govern, or religiously indoctrinate or shepherd a person who loves themselves and is able to speak their own truth.

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Love Equals Power

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

This is it! The launch of my new website, happily timed to coincide with the release of my new book Love Equals Power, which should be hitting the shelves in Australia in the next month or two.

So, love and power? What the heck do these have to do with each other? Who, with a strong grip on, and feet firmly grounded in, modern life of the 21st century could put these two disparate notions into the same sentence, let alone link them with an equivalence? What does it mean, not just hypothetically, but for all of us and the world?

Unbelievable as it may seem, I am actually making the claim that the only true power in this universe is love and that the only way we can create the life we truly desire – you know, the life that is filled with all the success, wealth, beauty, power, peace of our fondest dreams – is found in understanding, and living, love. (more…)