André Duqum

Do you think that our capacity to give love to others is limited to the degree we can give it to ourselves in many ways?

Do you think that our capacity to give love to others is limited to the degree we can give it to ourselves in many ways?

Do you think that our capacity to give love to others is limited to the degree we can give it to ourselves in many ways?

Look at you appreciating the complexity.

Look at you appreciating the complexity.

Look at you appreciating the complexity.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

What sparked your desire to write a book about love when it's quite a, you know, filled industry?

What sparked your desire to write a book about love when it's quite a, you know, filled industry?

What sparked your desire to write a book about love when it's quite a, you know, filled industry?

Yeah, when you say that, it just brings to mind how often we drag our history and who we think somebody is and how they should show up based off of who they've been in the past in every single moment. And in that perspective, it's like we're not actually even engaging with somebody who, as they are in the moment, we're engaging with how we want them to be, how we expect them to be.

Yeah, when you say that, it just brings to mind how often we drag our history and who we think somebody is and how they should show up based off of who they've been in the past in every single moment. And in that perspective, it's like we're not actually even engaging with somebody who, as they are in the moment, we're engaging with how we want them to be, how we expect them to be.

Yeah, when you say that, it just brings to mind how often we drag our history and who we think somebody is and how they should show up based off of who they've been in the past in every single moment. And in that perspective, it's like we're not actually even engaging with somebody who, as they are in the moment, we're engaging with how we want them to be, how we expect them to be.

And that like just sucks intimacy out of the equation.

And that like just sucks intimacy out of the equation.

And that like just sucks intimacy out of the equation.

That's not a good way to live. Yeah. And it's why I'm so glad we started this whole conversation talking about the developing of awareness because to the degree that we do that is to the degree we can actually be present with somebody and not just our projections of them.

That's not a good way to live. Yeah. And it's why I'm so glad we started this whole conversation talking about the developing of awareness because to the degree that we do that is to the degree we can actually be present with somebody and not just our projections of them.