When love is blind is often said, it really is one of the most truthful things that people say, although indirectly: “I knew the fact, but I suppressed it.” The trouble is not with the eyes, but with the mind that deliberately ignores the inconvenient truth. So, why is it so? Why even the smartest, …
After a breakup, most people have this thought going again and again in their head: “We broke up that easily, so it must have never been real.” As if love has to be forever to be real. As if the breakup leaves no trace of the time you spent together. The real question should be: …
Usually, relationships do not finish as a result of one major dramatic event. It is like with a glass; the glass does not break all at once, already there are small invisible cracks. Nowadays, social media has gradually become the kind of invisible crack that you are talking about in relationships. Those vague feelings of …
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“I loved that pigeon as a man loves a woman. And she loved me. When she was dying, she came to my room, there was a fire in her eyes, firm and brilliant a fire of a kind that has never been seen in this world. Right then and there, I understood that my life’s …
Love is the most refined snare the human brain can create for itself. It originates from the point where the brain’s evolutionary codes meet the soul’s longing for infinity. And once it’s activated, it leaves no cognitive system untouched. Neuroscience says: The area of the brain responsible for decision-making temporarily shuts down when one falls …
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We sanctified love, yet in doing so, we diminished it. We trapped it in movie scenes, song choruses, and the unmet needs people projected onto one another. We glorified love but forgot about values. And in the end, what remained was a feeling that consumes but does not elevate. The Mask of Repressed Emotions Psychology …
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