We need to de-anthropocentrize this thing about falling in love, which our culture reduces to soap operas and finding a mate. We have to realize you fall in love with CREATION.

 

"You must be especially careful not to breathe upon a loved human the Divine communion that more properly belongs to the Beloved, although you can mirror the Beloved to the other.  If you make the mistake of investing in human beings the love that belongs to the Beloved, you run the risk of blowing them out by the intensity of feeling you project.  Almost inevitably, they must escape and you are left with an immensity of loss and bereavement."

Jean Houston

"I think frankly that our species is pansexual.  I don’t think we’re heterosexual or homosexual or bisexual.  You can have sexual experiences walking on the earth . . . You can’t do ecology without an aesthetic, without a sense of beauty.  It’s beauty, and being in love with forests, and with healthy soil, and healthy food, and healthy bodies that’s going to give us the imagination and the courage to do something about it . . . And we have to de-anthropocentrize this thing about falling in love, which our culture reduces to soap operas and finding a mate.  We have to realize you fall in love with CREATION . . . Once we get that energy going, we’ll have the political imagination and the moral imagination to change our ways."

Matthew Fox

Photo: Rosy Paintbrush cross-pollinated by bees with Western Yellow Paintbrush, Maroon Bells - Snowmass Wilderness, CO, August 13, 2011