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Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection
by

Mimi Zhu

Elie's review

Nov 02, 2022

it was amazing

bookshelves: spirituality

Interpersonal abuse and abuse at the hands of the state are two sides of the same coin. A necessary, brutal, optimistic, loving, intense book I want to shove into the hands of people I love.

"Loving myself did not mean that I had to confine myself to an island and loving my life did not mean that I had to venture through it alone."

"I do not seem romance as a desperate distraction like I used to, though my heart is wide open to the arrival of romantic love as a blessing in my life."

"Being gentle with myself, reparenting myself, and romancing myself strengthened all my relationships."

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“we must learn to establish firm boundaries within these virtual worlds that encourage us to consume our own suffering”
― Mimi Zhu, Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection

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“the system fails us again and again and creates the illusion that we are the ones who are failing”
― Mimi Zhu, Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection

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“it can be an act of love to confront somebody when we feel betrayed by them if we are transparent and centered in our intention to express ourselves, and not focused on punishing the other person or replicating harm. when we believe that a good or perfect world is one that has rid itself of anger or sadness or death, we become fearful of the radical teachings within these natural experiences and emotions.”
― Mimi Zhu, Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection

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