We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion

Abraham Maslow

Do we understand love? Do we understand the true meaning of selfless love? Do we truly care about others for who they are? Or are we pushing our own agenda when we talk about love?

Do we teach love? Are we examples of love that others can learn from? Do we demonstrate it in our actions? Is our love merely sentiment or does it come from the heart and soul?

Do we create love in hostile circumstances? Do we generate a presence in which love is experienced by others?

These questions are of significance in a world that is manifesting a lot of hostility, mistrust, intolerance. Without genuine, serious love, we can only expect things to get worse. Are we going to be part of the problem or the soluton.

We live in a very fast paced world. The problem is that the rush and hur rush and hurry of this way of life is destroying us. We are more stressed and tense and even brag about this. But our lives become more shallow, and we don’t take time to experience life as it is. We become impatient, frustrated, angry. Our thinking becomes more superficial and narrow as we do not take time to reflect. We become dominated by the outside world instead of comfortably steering our own ship. We need to take time to slow down and smell the roses, to experience and appreciate the beauty of being alive.

Slowing down our pace in life has great advantages. It gives us the opportunity to notice what is happening, to savor experiences, to appreciate life. We become calmer and more peaceful opening the door to a richer experience of life. When we take time with relationships they grow stronger and richer as well.

Take the time to slow down and experience the richness of life. You just may find that it changes the quality of your life.

My goal in this blog is to reflect on various aspects of life as we live and experience. Hopefully, through this process, finding ways to improve the quality of our lives.