We were born to love
We are all so blessed to have so much information at our fingertips on how to live a loving, trans formative life. I have been reading Tom Shadyac’s book Life’s Operating Manual lately. He shares that Charles Darwin used the term survival of the fittest twice in The Descent of Man but used the word love ninety five times. Darwin went on to say that human kind’s ability to cooperate and sympathize has allowed us to adapt and become the most prolific species on the planet. Then, Shadyac also shares that Jeremy Rifkin, in his book The Empathic Civilization, chronicles our history from a very different perspective. We are not a species wired for violence, aggression and war. We are a species that is wired for love, kindness and compassion.
Rifkin points out that when we see the airwaves filled with war, violence and crime that they are the exception, not the norm. If we watch the news too much, we assume that what is reported is happening the most. It is actually the opposite. The news does not report, every door that is opened, every thank you shared, every kindness observed. The amount of goodness and love is almost incalculable, like grains of sand. Right now, as I share this blog, there could be millions of wonderful exchanges of loving acts occurring!
This is why I have been writing this blog for nearly a year. I want all of us to focus on and celebrate the magnificence of the human spirit. And this is also why a group of us are gathering tomorrow night in our home, to brainstorm about creating a television show that does just that. Right now, we are a small team of committed conscious folks who want to make a difference. I invite you to join Lou Ann and I and our teammates to create a vehicle of love for all the inhabitants of the Earth. From my excited heart to yours, Thomas