The world needs lovers.
Lovers aren’t necessarily people in romantic relationships.
They’re not necessarily young or old, men or women – or any other demographic
category.
Lovers are people for whom love as a profound force and mode of
perception – bountiful, particular-yet-universal, ever-new and ever-revealing –
is the highest principle and the top priority.
If you’re a lover…
§ You want
to put your love into the world of form in a way that’s both precise and
transcendent.
§ You want
to let go of the limits that the appearance of scarcity and competition
sometimes put on your heart.
§ You catch
glimpses of astounding mystery and beauty in the world and seek to amplify and
share those visions.
§ Your
imagination is more than just a tool for fantasy – it shows you layers of
reality that our culture obscures.
§ You
sometimes feel frustrated at the uphill battle of making your love manifest
through the gravity of your own fear and unhelpful habits.
§ You have
painful wounds that come from daily life in a society that values just about
everything – money, prestige, drugs, violence, sensation – over love.
§ You
receive constant messages from the mainstream culture that you’re nuts for
valuing connection and heart and community above personal gain.
Well, I don’t think you’re nuts. I think you’re the hope of
this world, and I’m interested in supporting you in every way I can. I
made the INDECISION RESCUE
KIT as a way of helping us lovers lighten up on ourselves.
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I’ve had a goodly amount of trouble articulating just who it is
I’m trying to serve and reach with my work. I’ve talked about geniuses
and brilliant people – but most folks who I see as brilliant and geniuses have
trouble identifying with those terms out of their modesty – and also, to speak
of someone’s genius or brilliance doesn’t necessarily get to the core of what
attracts me. I don’t get particularly thrilled by people who have a lot
of creativity but a lack of heart.
During a visit to beautiful Baltimore this spring I saw a quote
from Vincent van Goh on the wall of the American Museum of Visionary Art that
just about flipped my brains: “I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”
Immediately I was like – whoah. That’s true. That’s some
Capital “T” TRUTH right there.
I can get way excited
by art – but art that doesn’t come from a place of love or
aspiration-towards-love leaves me cold.
After a lot of early success, I withdrew from academia because the
posturing and intellectualism turned me off. I experienced first-hand how much
disdain there is out there for the notion of love – like it’s some ooey-gooey,
sentimental, ridiculous thing that we’d all be better off without.
At the same time that I was hearing love insulted left and right,
I noticed professors and grad students all around me literally destroying
themselves with drugs and alcohol. One particularly brilliant man did it
to the point of suicide-by-overdose. I think he could have used a lot of
the very love he made it a point to disdain.
I want to create a culture where a focus on love and connection is
seen as a deep strength rather than a pointless weakness. Where love
isn’t just celebrated as exclusionary attachment but as an all-embracing
white-hot inspiration. I’m pretty sure such a culture is what my hero Queer
Jesus called the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.
If this resonates with you, I hope you’ll join my list so we can
keep in touch. I’ll send you the INDECISION RESCUE KIT as my first gesture of encouragement – and much more will ensue
from there.
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