Being Love

I meant to write yesterday, but didn’t. After a workout at the gym, I headed out to the downtown library in search of books by Erich Fromm. Just the other day while watching an episode of CSI, Lawrence Fishburne’s character tells his co-worker, ““The philosopher Eric Fromm, he forecasts a society that was obsessed with possession. He believed that human beings had two basic orientations, having or being. Now a person with a ‘having’ orientation seeks to acquire and possess things, property, and even people. But a person with a ‘being’ orientation focuses on the experience; they derive meaning from exchanging and engaging with other people.”

These words intrigued me. What exactly did they mean? Of course I would like to think of myself as a person of ‘being’ rather than ‘having.’ But what exactly does it mean to ‘be?’ Do I let go of everything? Can I have and still be? Does it mean that I come from of place of compassion, openness, vulnerability, maybe love?

And so while searching for books by Fromm, I came across Deepak Chopra’s “A Path To Love.” I kept walking, but after a few minutes, I came back to the book. It was calling me to pick it up. As if I had gone there to find it, and not books by Fromm. After sitting down and reading a few pages, I knew that I was must read it. For some time, life has been a bit dark, but in a few minutes, after reading about love, my state of being altered. I felt different and open. I felt sunshine in my being.

I felt gratitude for the words. I felt good. I feel good.

The piece here is the second piece of my self-portraits. It is titled “Courage.” I definitely struggled with it and it feels a bit scary. Yet there was relief in finishing it. I chose the word courage because it isn’t always easy to see the dark part of me. Yet in allowing myself to see it, I see all of me.

See you in you, in everything. Feel the love.

May you have a beautiful Wednesday day!