Saturday, February 14, 2009

How to fall in love.

I'm assuming that one can fall in love. No matter what. One doesn't have to be rich. One can even be dirt poor to fall in love. Love is a priceless commodity. It's there for the picking. Seems to me love is the key one needs to enter Paradise. Heaven. Impossible to buy one's way in. Seems to me that some guy about 2,000 years ago speculated that it's almost impossible for a rich oligarch to make his way to heaven. It'd be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle. Love comes from inside one's being. It's a feeling. An attitude. More precious than money and other forms of material wealth. Can't convince many people of that. Many say they can easily fall in love -- with money, that is. But the point is, if we horde money and have far more than we need, it's not true love. Love has to be aimed at our fellow beings. At the common good. Not just for ourselves and the few. But for humanity as a whole. Only then will we as a society have truly fallen in love. --Jim Broede

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