Tuesday, July 01, 2014

The holy curiosity of inquiry

Is love something that is just lying dormant in you, waiting for magical moments to bestow themselves upon us? Or is love a skill we need to learn to do? Maria Popova examines Leo Buscaglia's book on the subject. Buscaglia quotes Einstein:
“It is nothing short of a miracle that instruction today has not strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry. For this delicate little plant lies mostly in need of freedom without which it will fall into rack and ruin and die without fail.”

Has our commercialized mass media taught us that love is something we just fall into, usually at first sight? Buscaglia wrote that
Each person has the potential for love. But potential is never realized without work. This does not mean pain. Love, especially, is learned best in wonder, in joy, in peace, in living.
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