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• Interface eco-sustainability legacy 

• Seeking love
• Awe
• Gratitude
• Healing
• Play
• Curiosity about positive potential   

• Eros - attraction
• Agape - true friendship
• Philia - true familial love
• Caritas - sacrificial love, giving your life for the good of others (“a calling, a joy, a happiness“) 

Studying Happiness has helped me have a sense of the value of our choice-making. Everyday I get up and I say, “What is today?” And I have a sense of awe. And every person that comes into my life, I have a sense of awe. That makes it new and real and exciting, and nothing every dull or boring, so perhaps curiosity and awe are valuable attributes at institutional-identity scale.

I kind of have an inner path I follow: I prefer to be curious, rather than certain. I think that has led me to a lot of diversity... There’s not just one way, as many of the Fundamentalist sermons I heard suggested. 

Most of the people who initiated (therapy in the early days) were female. It would be the mother bringing in the son, or the mother bringing in the whole family. The mother would be the one always organizing that.   

(In the 1960s, White America) was very paternalistic and I had to prove that I had done right by his money and his children.
 
The male does tend in our species to focus; he makes a good TV-watcher! The female is more the Gatherer; she’s born to shop! That is the problem right there: Can the shoppers and the focusers get together to declare the universe needs one song?! :)
 
We’re not done yet. We’re still evolving.

We have the joy of being present, listening, and seeking something new.

Love that stretches and a mind that is eternally curious, that’s how I see our evolutionary drift. 

The biggest change that’s on the horizon is the fact that we are hooked-up and we can communicate -- and, therefore, we can’t keep pockets of secrecy, and I think more and more are enlightened as to our environmental emergency.

I have a sense of gratitude and awe about how it all works. It’s the most fascinating thing in the world to think of Life as it exists here on this little blue, tiny planet. . . I am so in awe of the people who are learning how to be good stewards of our physical environment.

.... “Whatsoever thing thy neighbor doeth that pulleth thy chain, puncheth thy button or ringeth thy bell — that thing hath more to do with thee than thy neighbor!” :)