Love and laughter
Jun. 23rd, 2005 04:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chelidon...two topics about which I've written much in my journal.
Some stuff from Rob Brezsny's site (thanks,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kira_april!) I am a quote junky, and am happy to pass 'em on.
On Love:
Rainer Maria Rilke: "For one human being to love another is the most difficult task of all. It’s the work for which all other work is mere preparation."
Teilhard de Chardin: "Someday after we have mastered the winds, the waves, and gravity, we will harness for God the energies of love; and then for a second time in the history of the world, human beings will have discovered fire."
Leo Tolstoy: "Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love."
Blaise Pascal: "If you do not love too much, you do not love enough."
Emily Dickinson: "Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself."
On laughter:
"The anonymous celebrity with whom you have most in common is the jester who followed Buddha around and kept him loose"
Which reminds me of one of the many excellent Ken Wilber quotes:
"Transcendence restores humor. Spirit restores humor. Suddenly, smiling returns. Too many representatives of too many movements-- even many good movements, such as feminism, environmentalism, meditation, spiritual studies--seem to lack humor altogether. In other words, they lack lightness, they lack a distance from themselves, a distance from the ego and its grim game of forcing others to conform to its contours. There is self-transcending humor, or there is the game of egoic power. No wonder Mencken wrote that "Every third American devotes himself to improving and lifting up his fellow citizens, usually by force; this messianic delusion is our national disease." We have chosen egoic power and politically correct thought police; grim Victorian reformers pretending to be defending civil rights; messianic new paradigm thinkers who are going to save the planet and heal the world. They should all trade two pounds of ego for one ounce of laughter."
-- Ken Wilber, _One Taste_
May our lives be filled with love and laughter -- two things you don't want to do without. And may both the love and the laughter be spontaneous, genuine, joyous, life-sustaining, and healthy. Both love and laughter can be a choice, both love and laughter can seem hard to find sometimes, and both love and laughter are your birthright. Be open to them when they come your way, and do what you can to spread them to others, and I guarantee that the world will be a much, much better place for it.
Some stuff from Rob Brezsny's site (thanks,
kira_april!) I am a quote junky, and am happy to pass 'em on.On Love:
Rainer Maria Rilke: "For one human being to love another is the most difficult task of all. It’s the work for which all other work is mere preparation."
Teilhard de Chardin: "Someday after we have mastered the winds, the waves, and gravity, we will harness for God the energies of love; and then for a second time in the history of the world, human beings will have discovered fire."
Leo Tolstoy: "Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love."
Blaise Pascal: "If you do not love too much, you do not love enough."
Emily Dickinson: "Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself."
On laughter:
"The anonymous celebrity with whom you have most in common is the jester who followed Buddha around and kept him loose"
Which reminds me of one of the many excellent Ken Wilber quotes:
"Transcendence restores humor. Spirit restores humor. Suddenly, smiling returns. Too many representatives of too many movements-- even many good movements, such as feminism, environmentalism, meditation, spiritual studies--seem to lack humor altogether. In other words, they lack lightness, they lack a distance from themselves, a distance from the ego and its grim game of forcing others to conform to its contours. There is self-transcending humor, or there is the game of egoic power. No wonder Mencken wrote that "Every third American devotes himself to improving and lifting up his fellow citizens, usually by force; this messianic delusion is our national disease." We have chosen egoic power and politically correct thought police; grim Victorian reformers pretending to be defending civil rights; messianic new paradigm thinkers who are going to save the planet and heal the world. They should all trade two pounds of ego for one ounce of laughter."
-- Ken Wilber, _One Taste_
May our lives be filled with love and laughter -- two things you don't want to do without. And may both the love and the laughter be spontaneous, genuine, joyous, life-sustaining, and healthy. Both love and laughter can be a choice, both love and laughter can seem hard to find sometimes, and both love and laughter are your birthright. Be open to them when they come your way, and do what you can to spread them to others, and I guarantee that the world will be a much, much better place for it.
