Love Actually
31 Dec 2008 Leave a Comment
in Life-such as it is. Tags: Human, Life, Love
“Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion’s starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don’t see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it’s not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it’s always there – fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge – they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I’ve got a sneaky feeling you’ll find that love actually … is all around.”
- from the film Love Actually.
Love is blind…
14 Aug 2008 Leave a Comment
in Love Tags: authentic, Human, knowing, Life, Love
I keep a written journal…occasionally I’ll go back over it. Mostly what I find more closely approximates brain drain than writing. I wrote this in July of ’07 and almost like it…lol.
“Love is blind,” we say, but perhaps it is more accurate to say love sees with different eyes. Love sees beyond the surface. Love opens the door for beauty. When we see with the eye, we develop the ability to refine, to judge, to discriminate. When we see with the heart, we expand the view of what it is to be human. We see the common dream, the wisdom of friends and neighbors. We see there is no separation between that which is most beautiful and the everyday world. The eye of the heart sees with a wholeness that allows imperfections and idiosyncrasies to coexist with beauty. The eye of the heart knows surface and depth are not opposites. Beauty is a process, a revelation, not a finished state.
Beauty reveals itself over time in relationships. The people I love are beautiful to me. I’m not sure if my eyes are blinded by love or it is love that lets me see their beauty. Knowing them over time, my appreciation of who they are and how they appear increases. Their beauty comes from their liveliness and authentic sweetness, their intention to live lives that make some sense (and some nonsense), and the spirited coherence of being who they are.
Okay–so it’s in need of a little editing… :0)..
