Jennifer Garvey Berger
Love As Joy, Suffering and Hope
Spoken in English. Their words, as they said them.
It was telling this lovely man. We had a one meeting and I was telling him I was writing a book chapter on love at the time. I'm struggling with this book chapter on love. And, and he said, why would you want to write about this? This is this is the cause of all human suffering. This is this is the cause of all human tragedy. Love. And of course he's right.
And it was just so eye opening to hear that perspective. Because, yes, of course, this is true. And also, it's the cause of all joy.
So you don't get the one without the other. You don't get the the full throated joy of it without the risk of the ache and the real grief.
I still think that if we could get closer to touching it, we would be better. We'd be better. We'd not kill each other.
I would, come together to solve some of these terrifying challenges we have, do you think?
I just count my blueprints.