How Great Is Love?

This is a nice little tale I recently received on email: Once upon a time, there was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness, and all of the others, including Love. One day it was announced to the feelings that the island would sink, so all repaired their boats and left. Love was the only one who stayed. Love wanted to persevere until the last possible moment. When the island was almost sinking, Love decided to ask for help. Richness was passing by Love in a grand boat. Love said, “Richness, can you take me with you?” Richness … Continue reading

How We Forget

Many consider life to be an essentially meaningless exercise in consumption, maybe ‘creation’, aging, and death. Many of us tie our whole life purpose and value to completely transitory objectives, responsibilities, desires, and relationships. This life and the time-span it covers are but a blip on the vast, incomprehensible magnitude of the universe and the blanket of time, of eternity. As humans, we have an opportunity to meld our souls back with that eternity. We have an opportunity to return ourselves to the underlying whole. However, we often either live our life unaware of all this, asleep in the bed … Continue reading