By love, I don’t mean just between people—I mean a love for invention, architecture, neighborhoods, water, whales, soil, technology, farmers, etc. I’m talking about a love that doesn’t leave anything out. When we look deeply at the physical world, all we find are relationships. So we need to take care of those relationships because that’s what you are. Did you think you were something else?
How do we cultivate a life where we don’t make ourselves separate from things? In doing so, we stop seeing them as “things.” We stop turning ourselves into things, and others into things.
We have to go to a place deep within. Otherwise you end up running around. Which is really just trying to get other people to love you. But trying to get other people to love you is actually the biggest obstacle to itself because it blocks other people from really being allowed to see you—because you don’t know who you are since you’re running around.
All of this is a way of talking about love.