In "The 8 Stages of Love", Armand DiMele, founder of the DiMele Center for Psychotherapy and host of “The Positive Mind” radio show, discusses romantic relationships and how they grow and evolve over time. Following is an excerpt from this program.
Let’s start off with that famous honeymoon phase. The honeymoon phase -- I’ll call it the Honeymoon phase: phase one of a relationship. It’s mostly run by automatics and you don’t know it’s run by automatics. You see something in your immune system and something in the chemical system and something in the omental set leads you to find a person and hook up with them. And by hook up, I mean connect. You don’t know why it is but, you know, given another time this person may not have been appealing. Given another day, given another condition. Like, let’s say you just, you know, you’re feeling old and you meet somebody young, and boom, you feel in love. Or you’re feeling young and you feel like you’ve just been dumped by somebody, so you find somebody older and you fall in love. Or, you know, it’s set and setting.
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In the following excerpt from the Marianne Williamson Lecture "Life Is a Choice,", Williamson reads the stirring proclamation written after the Civil War, beseeching women to come together to declare that there shall be no more war, only peace.
Mother’s Day is coming up on Sunday. Do you want me to talk to you about Mother’s day now or do you want me to talk to you about Mother’s Day at the end of my talk? Alright, how many of you know the origins of Mother’s Day? OK. During the Civil War 1861-1865, at the end of the Civil War, there were mothers from the north who got together with mothers from the south and they decided that war should never happen again, that no mother should ever again lose their sons in war. Julia Ward Howe, who wrote the lyrics to the Battle Hymn of the Republic, wrote the official proclamation and she worked with a woman named Anna Jarvis. They were feminists and Suffragettes, and Julia Ward Howe wrote the official proclamation for Mother’s Day. You can see this all over the internet now. I remember when I used to talk about this; it was like nobody had heard of it, and now I see more and more with every Mother’s Day. The word is sort of out there.
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Gloria Steinem offers us this excerpt from her recording “Witches, Scholars and Other Freedom Fighters.”
What was true in my day is still far too true now, and so we need scholars who are revolutionaries and who dare to think what we might study if we looked at the world as if everyone mattered, and if we studied each continent in the reality of their existence instead of the political fact of their power, in our view of the world. In fact by not doing that we are missing a very great deal. Think about what we did not learn about the Native-American cultures. There are hundreds of sophisticated peoples, yet we are only just discovering how useful to us Native American cultures are that were already in this country before it was “discovered”. And think about the true source of much of our democratic tradition in this country.
I doubt very much the immigrants -- the European immigrants who came here -- knew a great deal about ancient Greece. And in any case, in ancient Greece, only about five people voted. It was a very limited privilege -- very limited privilege -- and in fact the source of our knowledge about democracy really came from the Native American cultures that were already here. We learned the structure of our government from the Iroquois confederacy. And those wise people advised us and were present in Philadelphia explaining that it was of course possible to allow a high degree of autonomy as they did to various nations. The Cherokees and others still cede overall umbrella powers in a confederacy. Benjamin Franklin admitted that this is a major source of our democracy in this country, but with condescension: “Well if those savages can do it so can we.”
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