I summarised his charming words badly,
instead of evoking curiosity it actually
repelled readers - herewith my apologies
to Buscaglia for messing up his wonderful
text, and a recommendation that the reader
look this up himself - it is GREAT in the
original, pity I made him sound so pedantic
and boring!
Leo Buscaglia ‘Love’ Souvenir Press 1984
pp.91, 95, 99, 101
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I don't have a clue what I am talking about, but I just wrote the following, please take it with a large heaping of salt ...
I really appreciate your blog and I like most of what you write. I do think that compassion, love, forgiveness are some of the most important and vital things we must learn in life. Especially I like Corinthians chapter 13 in the new testament. (I'm not arguing for any particular christian ethics or worldview, I simply really like that passage.)
Yet, even as I say all this, the passage you cite here strikes me as being to uni-dimensional. I feel like shouting, leave me alone, don't tell me what I need to do. I think we need to make room for capriciousness and spontaneity. Yet there I go wagging my own finger.
I'm not saying you would disagree with this, not you with your fairy stamps and sparkly glue, I'm merely pointing out that we can't really exhort one another to love, so much as we just have to love. And what's that mean anyway? Love.
I don't know if it would appeal to you or not as we each respond to different works of art in our own way, but one work that really threw me to pieces, yet helped a great deal was Dostoevsky's _Notes from the Underground_. It's a very devious work and worth a look if you haven't read it yet.
Happy wishes
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