Daily quote, Monday June 22, 2009.

I think it might be time to draw a picture of the sun on the wall, just as a reminder! :-)

Isn't it true when you love someone but you take it for granted that they'll be around forever that this love loses something. Isn't attention and love, as Dorothy in our group often says, closely related. In total attention to another person there is always room for wonderment; in fact it's the essence of that relationship, and the relationship is then always love.

How much does security in general destroy our lives? There are countless people in very secure jobs, with pensions, tenure, union rights, etc., that hate their jobs and themselves, and are depressed and taking many pills each day to get through to the next. It's all because the sense of wonderment, the freshness of each day, the uncertainly, has all been taken away. In fact, without really understanding, they gave up everything that made them free and they are no longer in love with life. We can have too much security.

Love is not a habit.

It is the quality of freshness, of newness, that is essential, or otherwise life becomes a routine, a habit; and love is not a habit, a boring thing. Most people have lost all sense of wonderment. They take everything for granted; this sense of security destroys freedom and the wonderment of uncertainty.

Letters to a Young Friend - 13