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The Only Commandment this Valentine Day: Love Yourself

This post is a continuation of ideas I started exploring from Osho's Love, Freedom and Aloneness book... There is an belief that it's better to give then to receive, it's better to sacrifice yourself for the good of others, your country, your family or your children. Osho says this is a lie, a blatant lie. The priests and the politicians have held against you from the beginning of time. Even the Oracle at Delphi saying, ?Know Thyself? got Read More →

Give your dating life a makeover this Valentines Day

Supercharge your dating life and reinvent yourself from the inside out with South Africa's leading dating and attraction expert... Love is in the air and South Africa's "Romance Rescue Team" have announced they will be hosting the first ever Social or Single seminar on the 12 February. The perfect aphrodisiac to Valentine's Day, guests attending the event will be treated to an evening of lively, entertaining talk by leading dating and attraction experts. Not just for the actively unmarried, the event is open to all and being held at the celebrated Preview Theatre in Bagleyston. It will start Read More →

The Myth of Romantic Love

In the film, The Mirror Has Two Faces, Barbra Streisand mentions the emergence of courtly love. In the following audio lecture Alan Watts identifies the same thing and expands on the link between marriage and romantic love and points to the French Troubadours 800 years ago. Here's some more background on this view: Now my favourite book about love is this amazing book by Italian journalist and Professor in Sociology, Francesco Alberoni, 77 years old and still going strong. Read More →

Valentine’s Day 2006 Movie Recommendations

One of the best things to do is get together with your girlfriend or boyfriend and watch a movie. DVDs are just so commonplace and as you know you can get those pirate copies even while movies are in cinemas. I personally prefer watching them at the cinema the first time around. As Valentine's Day is approaching I recommend some of my favourite romantic movies from the last two years...

1. 50 First Dates (2004)

50 First Dates With generous amounts of good luck and good Read More →

The Myth of Love in the 21st Century

This is an article I wrote in 2002 and I'm republishing it here now that we're getting closer to Valentine's Day where all women go cookoo and men fall over their feet to please them... As we approach Valentine's Day its imperative we re-look the meaning of love in modern society. Is love in the 21st century really the same thing as it always was throughout history? The love talked about in the great mythical tales of Romeo & Juliet and Anthony & Cleopatra. Lets look at the definition of love and proceed from there. The common meaning of love is Read More →
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