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Morning Thoughts on the “Summer of Love”

Steven Barnes
7 min readJun 27, 2023

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MORNING THOUGHTS ON “SUMMER OF LOVE”

All this summer, I’ll be focusing on love. Many reasons for this, including the realization that somehow, I connected to my own sense of being worthy of love very young. Mom had a lot to do with her…but somehow, even then, I knew my source of love was not her. It flowed THROUGH her, yes, but not FROM her. Maybe it was the varied spiritual texts she owned, which inspired me with the realization that all the positives she saw in Christianity, and the fellowship she dragged me to every Sunday, were also the same energies other cultures found in other rituals and perspectives.

This alarmed her — I had actually taken the “comparative religion” notion seriously, and concluded that whatever this was was EVERYWHERE if people had eyes to see.

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What if “all we need is love”? Well…then it would be critical to protect the processes and perspectives to generate and flow that emotion, yes? “Core Transformation” offers evidence that you can take ANY human behavior, no matter how negative, and if you work through it, at the core is the search for love and connection. IF THIS WAS TRUE, then the potential transformative power is stupendous, for individuals or the world at large.

But first…you’d need to be sure it is SAFE to love, and that you FEEL that safety.

Some of the things that result from a lack of love:

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Steven Barnes
Steven Barnes

Written by Steven Barnes

Steven Barnes is a NY Times bestselling author, ecstatic husband and father, and holder of black belts in three martial arts. www.lifewritingpodcast.com.

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