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What does it mean?
Love is a deep state of the spirit that helps people survive and thrive with passion.
In plain terms
Love helps you survive and live with passion and compassion.
What can you take from it?
Cultivate love to enhance life.

Where it applies

  • relationships
  • personal crisis
  • creative work

Putting it to work

  • express affection
  • practice compassion
  • nurture relationships

Questions to consider

  • What does love mean to you?
  • How does love help you thrive?

Another view

Love alone may not solve external hardships.

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