That Much Love in the World
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Introduction to TEACH LOVE, my book on how through unity and collaboration we can reveal something beautiful. A self-published 100 or so page poetic journey I plan to have out in the next month or two. The co-video is a spoken word poem set to music I also wrote.
INTRODUCTION
My “why” for teaching love is to cultivate the idea of love, to explore it, expand it — to join together with all lovers in planting seeds that sprout in the hearts of our planet’s 7-something billion people.
Might we then, together in exploration and expansion of the idea of love create a world where all of us feel we belong. Because we do.
Then we can begin a new story, birthing it using the tools of cooperation, compassion, curiosity, inclusion, love and empathy. Not just in the United States where I live, but all around the world.
For centuries great philosophers, poets, even scientists have provided data that supports, beyond reasonable doubt, that love is our common thread. We are all connected.
And it seems for centuries we’ve been preparing our minds to become, well, a new human. Meaning, we are shifting from an operating system of competition and survival into one of unity and collaboration.
We’ve been living a very old story for a very long time, a collective story telling us love and empathy are weak. A story that was taught and integrated into our psyche by parents, schools, politics, even at times, by our religions.
Truth is, LOVE is the strongest power we have.
“We are part of love, not separate from it”
Today, our planet and her people are playing out the old story in very aggressive ways.
One thing everyone seems to agree upon is that our world needs more love — at very least, we desire a peaceful world.
One of my favorite world renowned theoretical physicists, Stephen Hawking suggested that the best “cure” for aggression is empathy because it unites us.
I agree with Stephen Hawking.
Bring love to the front line, commit to changing a changing world in ways fruitful and sustainable for generations to come.
This book offers slowing down as a practice to allow ourselves to feel. Allow each other’s pain and joy. Allow ourselves to heal.
Teach Love encourages empathy to build the bridges that join the minds that create our future.
And I believe, social responsibility, in part, is to take the work of the lovers and peace builders that came before us and expand it, explore it, and express it in ways that help lift humanity.
Release the old story so we might begin a new one.
My “why” is not about having a million followers, but rather about inspiring — one, or five, or five hundred people who then engage their capacity to help others.
Our path to happiness comes from peace. Let us then — lay down our swords.
Thus the method for living well, in my eyes, is the vision of Love.
