August 21, 2003

• In response to my ‘blog below, PennyDreadful makes this observation: “Love may be the currency, but what if I am broke?”
  
  I think love is, in practice, infinite, in the same way that thought is practically infinite. Death is really the only thing that seems to put the brakes on it, and lots of people would argue that it’s not even an issue anyway.
  
  But be that as it may… Love is a state, like anger is a state. Would anyone argue that anger is finite? Would anyone say that there’s just not enough anger to go around?
  
  Love and anger both work to protect the boundary between belonging and exclusion. We get peeved at people who cross our boundaries uninvited, and we love those who are already inside.
  
  The act of loving outside the boundary is the same as expanding the boundary. Luckily for us humans, plodding along haphazardly, we can love on different levels. We can ‘practice’ love before actually doing it. We can pray for the well-being of strangers we’ve never met, even though we might judge and snub them if they were to come knocking at our door. And this is good, because it means we’re capable of choosing how we want to deal with others who are outside and inside our boundaries.
  
  Either way, we’re capable of loving or hating, into infinity. A person can be so filled with hate that they black out. A person can be so filled with love that they swoon. Either way, same effect. Love isn’t bigger than anger, and anger isn’t bigger than love. The difference is their effect.
  
  If you look at the way marketing works, you discover that there’s an implied economy of scarcity. Hurry now, while supplies last. Or, if you don’t get something that’s cool, your neighbor will get it and be cooler than you. Or, if you don’t sell your soul, someone else will, and they’ll get the benefit you should have gotten, and that’s just too much to bear.
  
  Those are lies. And they’re similar to the lies about love. There’s always enough, if you’re willing to do what’s necessary to change yourself to the state of love.
  

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