Today, a friend that watches out for me sent me this.
“Love is the ability and willingness
to allow those that you care for
to be what they choose for themselves
without any insistence that they satisfy you.”
It is from Wayne Dyer, the American philosopher and self-help author, who died in 2015.
Yesterday, I was being interviewed about relational dynamics in leadership, by a PhD candidate working on his dissertation. I remembered this, from one of my closest pals, Chris Corrigan.
“Friendship is our business model.”
I’ve modified Dyer’s statement.
“Friendship [Love] is the ability and willingness
to welcome [allow] those that you care for
to be what they choose for themselves
without any insistence that thy satisfy you.”
Choice, and friendship, and welcome — they make all of the difference.