Today's journal entry has prompted today's reflective synthesis to be about a most powerful, indescribable feeling: Love.
Love, I believe, will be my life’s work to understand. It already is at the center of everything that I do as a creator, in all its shades and shapes and sizes. My perception of it has been actively evolving as I grow older and especially through psychotherapy. My fascination with this sheer force of a feeling is only growing deeper, the more I grow through life.
A force that drives connection, an act of radical acceptance of our differences, a glue that holds communities and societal structures together... and can it be taught?
Without love, we probably wouldn't have evolved at the speed with which we have evolved into the individuals we are today. At least, that's my theory. But I am also known to be a hopeless romantic, so, there's that...
Join me in this flow, and may you find something in it to feed into yours.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction: Straight into the Journal
00:50 Journal Entry: On Love & Loving
04:41 Journal Entry #2: The Phenomenon of Human
06:17 Digesting the Journal Entries
07:31 The Meanings of Love & Loving
10:03 Empathy: Recognizing the Self & the Other
13:06 The Need for Connection and Community
13:37 The Role of Empathy in Love
15:38 Accepting Differences in Love
19:55 Love and History
23:35 Learning to Love, Ourselves Included
27:48 The Role of Love in Entropy
31:34 Epilogue: Finding & Sharing Our Authenticity
