Quotes

Love is not something you do,

It is not how you behave.

There’s nothing you can do that constitutes loving another,

No action that is of itself loving.

Love is a way of being.

And more than that.

It is simply being,

Being with another person, however they may be.

Holding no judgements, having no agendas,

No need to have them experience your love,

No desire to demonstrate love,

No intrusion upon their soul.

Nothing but a total acceptance of their being,

Born of your total acceptance of yours.

- Peter Russell, Author

Yeah, he might have been on to something. But isn’t everything we see telling us just the opposite?

You need a better car, that has more horsepower! So you can sit in traffic? NO! You don’t see cars in traffic in new car ads, you see them driving on the open road, getting there. Faster. Traffic is for slow people who don’t drive shiny new cars.

You need a new computer! (tell me you haven’t seen a new ad for a computer somewhere online today). A faster computer, that has more features! It’ll help you do all your work faster.

You need an HDTV. Because, hell, I don’t know, they’re cool, I guess. It won’t let you watch your shows faster, but you’ll be able to see all those details that you are missing now because you have a crummy non-HDTV. And next year, you’ll need to get an ultra HDTV. Just because.

Why, exactly, am I ranting about all of this? Probably because I haven’t even considered shopping for Christmas yet.

Email from my wife, just now:

Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) American Author