Love more, care less?

  To care for someone can mean to adore them, feed them, tend their wounds. But care can also signify sorrow, as in “bowed down by cares.” Or anxiety, as in “Careful!” Or investment in an outcome, as is “Who cares?”   The word love has no such range of meaning: it is pure acceptance. […]

Tags: acceptance, attachment, care, Helen Keller, Martha Beck, unconditional love