What The World Needs Now Are Love-Life Lessons
by Dr. Thomas Jordan

Love is a natural capability we all come into the world with. Given the right conditions love is supposed to evolve into the experience of giving to others. When thwarted by the misfortunes of life, love can be transformed into something ugly and destructive. Unfortunately we still do not know how to take care of this most precious of human potentials. Favorable conditions for the development of love have never really been adequately implemented. It is so very easy for human beings to be trained instead with lessons drawn from experiences of pain and interpersonal violence. Perhaps we are made too anxious by the vulnerability and openness love requires. For many people defensiveness seems easier. Others take the path of offensiveness, bringing forth whatever hurt and unhappiness they themselves experienced and recreating it anew in the lives of other people. And of course there are some who have given up completely on love and instead seek power and control as more reliable allies in life. Where has all of this confusion left us? I say, in need of an education about our own personal love-life psychologies.

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