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The Power of Love: Make Triple What You Give

Philip A. Christensen
3 min readJul 5, 2024

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Discover how giving love can transform your life and relationships.

The Power of Love: Make Triple What You Give
 Discover how giving love can transform your life and relationships; emotional growth; life; life lessons;

Everything that leaves you returns amplified.

There’s a saying that goes, “He who sows the wind reaps the whirlwind.”

This is true for everything, including harmony and love.

Love as you would like to be loved and give only what you would like to receive.

“Where there is a desire for power, there can be no love, and where there is love, there can be no desire for power.” — Carl Gustav Jung.

Unfortunately, I notice that many people nowadays view their relationships only through the lens of power:

  • “What can I get?”
  • “What do I gain from this relationship?”
  • “What car do you drive?”
  • “How can I control the other person to get what I want?”

These questions reveal a selfish side of people, one that we all have. It’s normal to want to receive what we need, but this desire, brought into every relationship, is counterintuitive. What we truly lack is love, specifically self-love and acceptance.

When we don’t receive the love we need and don’t love ourselves, we become aggressive, angry, hostile, and sad. Our sense of self-worth…

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Philip A. Christensen
Philip A. Christensen

Written by Philip A. Christensen

Author and coach, I write for ambitious solopreneurs, creative freelancers, and overwhelmed leaders who want to know how to deal with their self-sabotage.

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