Practical Love

I know I am writing about food again. The food blog is actually my wife, Cory's blog at http://coryography.wordpress.com  It is actually so much more and I highly recommend it. This would actually be a subset of the continuation of the self love post. It occurred to me today how dysfunctional our relationship with food is. It is not a surprise. The quality of food in the mass produced world of processed, high-fructose corn syrup laced food is crap. And every day we find out the food that we love is horrible for us ... and then it is good, but next week, it is bad again. My daughter, Celia, once asked as only a child can, "Why isn't all food good for us?" I will let you ponder that one. I am one of those persons who is blessed with the ability to eat anything I want and not turn into Sigmund the sea monster. I have always ate what I wanted, when i wanted it. Now that I have found out some not so savory information about my food, I have been more careful about the ...

You can explore the universe looking for somebody who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and you will not find that person anywhere. Buddha You can try to practice love and loving your neighbor and those who wrong you, but if you cannot love yourself, you are going to struggle. Love is like a seed. It is planted inside of you and you need to water and feed it. The environment is very important. But how do we improve the environment? How do we virtually water this symbolic seed? What if you look in the mirror and fear that you are a fat, aging, unloveable person? What if that mirror shows you all your flaws? What if you are afraid that everyone else can see them too. What if you constantly remind yourself that you have not lived to your potential; you haven't contributed to the world; and your dreams have passed without a chance? What then? What if you believe that you have bad thoughts, bad ideas and must be a bad person? What if you look ...