Quotes on Love

Hello friends,

I just got back from the Village Building Convergence and I am super-charged!
Such an amazing experience of permaculture, community and cultural revolution.

City Repair is definitely worth seeking out.
I have tons of pictures and videos but it will take a while to sort through :(

At the moment, I am composing a graduate research proposal

for my University of Tokyo grad school application.
I've been reading from a book that has been extremely thought provoking,
and I just came across a few passages,

in a chapter titled Consumption: A Symptom of Addiction,

about LOVE:

Love is one of those "things" that Fromm claims

we now seek to have instead of to be.

Loving takes commitment and much more;

it is hard work, and the results do not often show up immediately.

(from Sustainability by Design - John R. Ehrenfeld)

and here is one he included in a chapter titled,

A Radical Notion of Sustainability.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness

-Zhuang Zhou

幸福とは、幸福を追求することがなくなることである。

荘子