“Fear separates--makes us feel alone--disconnected--while love--love does just the opposite--it unites. {shadowland}”

“The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.”

Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist

“The opposite of fear," Dienekes said, "is love.”

Steven Pressfield Gates of Fire

“Love is the state of enlightenment and enlightenment is the state of love. You can't make any separation between them. Enlightenment is the state of no feelings and pure knowledge and so is love.”

Barry Long (1926–2003) Australian spiritual teacher and writer

“Faith, like love, unites; opinion, like hate, separates.”

John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) Catholic bishop

“The fear of separation is all that unites.”

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

“That's just your ego, trying to make sure it stays in charge. This is what ego does. It keeps you feeling separate, keeps you with a sense of duality, tries to convince you that you're flawed and broken and alone instead of whole.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

“Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

“In separateness only does love learn definition.”

Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989) American poet, novelist, and literary critic

“Love of consciousness evokes the same in response
Love of feeling evokes the opposite
Love of body depends only on type and polarity.”

G. I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949) influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, composer and writer