Today's journal entry has prompted today's reflective synthesis to be about a most powerful, indescribable feeling: Love.

Love, I believe, will be my life’s work to understand. It already is at the center of everything that I do as a creator, in all its shades and shapes and sizes. My perception of it has been actively evolving as I grow older and especially through psychotherapy. My fascination with this sheer force of a feeling is only growing deeper, the more I grow through life.

A force that drives connection, an act of radical acceptance of our differences, a glue that holds communities and societal structures together... and can it be taught?

Without love, we probably wouldn't have evolved at the speed with which we have evolved into the individuals we are today. At least, that's my theory. But I am also known to be a hopeless romantic, so, there's that...

Join me in this flow, and may you find something in it to feed into yours.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction: Straight into the Journal

00:50 Journal Entry: On Love & Loving

04:41 Journal Entry #2: The Phenomenon of Human

06:17 Digesting the Journal Entries

07:31 The Meanings of Love & Loving

10:03 Empathy: Recognizing the Self & the Other

13:06 The Need for Connection and Community

13:37 The Role of Empathy in Love

15:38 Accepting Differences in Love

19:55 Love and History

23:35 Learning to Love, Ourselves Included

27:48 The Role of Love in Entropy

31:34 Epilogue: Finding & Sharing Our Authenticity