Default preoccupation: the cosmos
Default preoccupation: place/the wild/sustainability
Default preoccupation: my joy at the natural world
Default preoccupation: the people I love
Default preoccupation: inspiration, poetry, books, art, music, creating workshops to inspire others
Default preoccupation: psychology/philosophy/ecopoetics/ecopsychology
Default preoccupation: psychology/philosophy/ecopoetics/ecopsychology
Default preoccupation: family, and family health issues
Default preoccupation: getting enough water down dog's throat on a daily basis
Default preoccupation: the many many shades of love...
Those are not in order. But in thinking about the fact that everything – everything – is relationship, in its widest and deepest possible meanings, I am thinking as always about what it means to love. And here are three of my favourite quotes, all from the poet Rainer Maria Rilke.
'Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.'
'For
one human being to love another: that is perhaps the greatest, the most
difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the
final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely
preparation...'
'Loving does not necessarily mean merging, surrendering,
and uniting with another person – it is rather a high incentive for an
individual to ripen... to become world in himself for the sake of
another person; it is a great, demanding claim on him, something that
chooses him and calls him to vast distances.'
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