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Defining Love

by John Welwood from Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart

I would define love very simply: as a potent blend of openness and warmth, which allows us to make real contact, to take delight in and appreciate, and to be at one with——our selves, others, and life itself. Openness——the heart’s pure, unconditional yes——is love’s essence. And warmth is love’s basic expression, arising as a natural extension of this yes——the desire to reach out and touch, connect with, and nourish what we love.

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Veggie Bags

Why put one pepper or a bunch of broccoli in a separate bag, just to put that bag in another grocery bag? We can save thousands and thousands of plastic bags by keeping our vegetables loose and not bagging each separately. You’re going to go home and wash them anyway right? If you’re buying 2 lbs of mushrooms though, you might have to bend the rules… unless you remember to bring your used ones back…

by Amanda

Experience

This is a blog post I wrote years ago. It’s interesting for me to go back and see where I was at different points in life.

I used to think that I was David experiencing life. Now I feel that I am Life experiencing David.

The more and more I sit back and witness the unfolding experience of this character named David, the less and less I am identified with his mind. For so long, my experience was the view that David’s mind projected on the day to day. I am starting to realize that this is a ...

- David

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