51. True Love: Practicing Giving Over Receiving
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2021
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Spiritually Hungry, Monica and Michael explore the definition of ‘true’ love – the unconditional love we have for others that isn’t based in our ego’s selfish desires but, rather, our desire for them to have goodness and blessings in their lives. Tune in as they share practical tools for creating a solid foundation and actively growing our relationships.
For a relationship to really grow, there has to be a shift to where we ask ourselves, “What am I giving to it?” – Michael Berg
Further readings:
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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| 0:00.0 | When you love somebody else, it means that you want the best for that, regardless of how it affects you, regardless if you receive anything in return. |
| 0:18.0 | So the way to know whether you love somebody is whether you truly |
| 0:22.1 | desire always for them to have goodness. It's who the person is and how they show up in the darkest |
| 0:28.5 | times. And that's really how you know you're compatible. And people don't actually go into |
| 0:32.4 | relationships thinking that way. You're not thinking about the bad times or the difficulties |
| 0:36.2 | or the challenges that |
| 0:38.6 | will naturally occur in life. And when you go through those experiences with somebody and they show |
| 0:43.2 | up, really show up for you and you show up either as your best self or your worst self, |
| 0:49.0 | that is really if you're truly compatible. And that also happens to be what true unconditional love is. |
| 0:53.9 | If you really love somebody, |
| 0:55.1 | you'll take the time |
| 0:56.2 | and you'll do the effort |
| 0:57.1 | to be there in the way that they need to do. |
| 1:04.3 | Welcome to the spiritually hungry podcast, episode 51. |
| 1:08.3 | Yay! |
| 1:09.1 | Woohoo! |
| 1:10.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:11.5 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 1:13.2 | It's going to be a fun episode on love. |
| 1:16.0 | We have called all the questions on, well, not all, but many that you have sent us on love |
| 1:22.8 | and relationships and all things that come with it. |
| 1:26.0 | And so it should make for a fun episode. |
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