Thich Nhat Hanh on love

To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love. To know how to love someone, we have to understand them. To understand, we need to listen.

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When you love someone, you should have the capacity to bring relief and help him to suffer less. This is an art. If you don’t understand the roots of his suffering, you can’t help, just as a doctor can’t help heal your illness if she doesn’t know the cause. You need to understand the cause of your loved one’s suffering in order to help bring relief.

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The more you understand, the more you love; the more you love, the more you understand. They are two sides of one reality. The mind of love and the mind of understanding are the same.

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Thich Nhat Hanh

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Certainly a prolonged threat can undermine the mental health of anyone, and,

as I have tried to state, the essence of cruelty is to destroy in an individual

that degree of hope which makes sense of the creative impulse and of creative

thinking and living. – D.W. Winnicott

Enzensberger on (im)migration

Almost all other nations justify their existence by a firm self-ascription. The distinction between 'our own' people and 'strangers' appears quite natural to them, even if it is questionable historically. Whoever wishes to hold on to the distinction would need to maintain, according to his own logic, that he has always been there – a thesis which can all too easily be disproved. To that extent, a proper national history assumes the ability to forget everything that doesn't fit.

However, it is not only one's own motley origin that is denied. Movements of migration on a large scale always lead to struggles over the distribution of resources. National feeling prefers to reinterpret these inevitable conflicts as though the dispute had more to do with imaginary than with material resources. The struggle is then over the difference between self- and external ascriptions, a field that offers demagogy ideal possibilities fro development.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Civil Wars: From L.A. To Bosnia, NY: New Press, 1994 p. 108.

Zizek on love

https://youtu.be/OabTK7y7d6E

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Between July 16, 1945 to November 4, 1962, the United States conducted 216 nuclear tests in the atmosphere and oceans, and the Soviet Union conducted 217. After both countries signed the Limited Test Ban Treaty on August 5, 1963, the United States performed a total of 1054 nuclear tests, involving 1149 separate explosions, until September 23, 1992.

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