Thomas Keating Quotes

Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.

I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.

My one area of vulnerability was I didn't know how to have a healthy relationship with a man.

I've always thrown myself into love in a rather carefree way, and the net result is that you do get hurt. But I wouldn't take away any of the experiences of my life.

Love is a vulnerable thing. Falling in love is like a great drug. But then to really be known and really let someone else be known is very vulnerable. It's a weird thing.

I love, therefore I am vulnerable.

I let down my guard and my heart was as good as gone.

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

Falling in love with someone is the surest highway to hurt that I know. When the door to love opens, the window to control closes.

It's still two human beings trying to get along, so it's going to be complicated. And love is always complicated. But humans must try to love each other, darling. We must get our hearts broken sometimes. This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface. There is, I think, a fear of love. There is a fear of love.

Most human beings still cannot trust love.

If we want the advantages of love, then we must be willing to take the risks of love. And that requires vulnerability. Of course, we can refuse this path and trod another one devoid of openness. But the toll on such a road is extremely high.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

Oh honey, there's nothing new on this earth when it comes to what men and women do in the dark. First love is when you learn. So you've learned that love can open you up like spring sun on a wee primrose. Good. Remember that. You know how to love.

Here she comes that little town flirt, you're falling for her and you're gonna get hurt.

One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy.

Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.

I feel the most vulnerable when I'm in love.

I am very scared to invest emotionally in a relationship.

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.