'Tis the season to celebrate love. Every year when Valentine's Day comes around, most of us focus on romantic love. But when you stop to think about it, there are many levels and types of love: I love ...

A certain detachment is a precursor to healthy attachment. This is consistent with spiritual traditions that counsel that a ...

Whether it lifts us up where we belong, it's a many splendored thing, or it’s all we need, as the songs go, it’s a truth universally acknowledged that the feeling of love is a unifying force. Romantic ...

What better subject to explore during Valentine's Day week than the meaning of love in our lives? Earlier in the week I offered thoughts that focused on the difficulties of forging and maintaining ...

For millennia, philosophers, prophets, and poets have debated and theorized about love: what it is, how to describe it, how to cultivate it. Scientists, not so much. Indeed, only in recent decades ...

Love has a way of gathering humanity. When I think about what it takes to be a good global citizen, the word “love” is at the center of that tree. If our tree for love had branches, they would remind ...

It takes Anne Lamott a few words to say what the rest of us spend our lives searching to express. Perhaps that's why her books — which she's been publishing since the 1970s — are received as wisdom ...