Beka’s Reviews > All About Love: New Visions > Status Update

"Living by a love ethic we learn to value loyalty + a commitment to sustained bonds over material advancement. While careers + making money remain important agendas, they never take precedence over valuing + nurturing human life + well-being.

I know no one who has embraced a love ethic whose life has not become more joyous + more fulfilling."

"Commitment to a love ethic transforms our lives by offering us a different set of values to live by. In large and small ways, we make choices based on a belief that honesty, openness, + personal integrity need to be expressed in public + private decisions."

"All awakening to love is spiritual awakening."

"When we see love as a combination of trust, commitment, care, respect, knowledge, + responsibility, we can work on developing these qualities, or, if they are already a part of who we are, we can learn to extend them to ourselves."

"Using a working definition of love that tells us it is the action we take on behalf of our own or another's *growth of spirit* provides us with a beginning blueprint for working on the issue of self-love."

"Consumer culture in particular encourages lies. Advertising is one of the cultural mediums that has the most sanctioned lying. Keeping people in a constant state of lack, in perpetual desire, strengthens the marketplace economy. Lovelessness is a boon to consumerism."