LOVE

Every moment that passes is one less than we have left.

Imagine this—when you take your final breath, what will you remember? Maybe you’ll wish you could trade the moments you rushed through life for the moments that stopped time.

Only love can do that. It commands your undivided attention. Like beauty. It’s not something that can be described, only felt. After all, yes they’re useful, but descriptions are only distortions of the things they describe.

Pause for a moment and think about locking eyes with your soulmate, looking at a famous painting in the louvre, hearing your favorite song for the first time, or getting lost in a sunset.

Your thoughts and sense of time are gone in those moments right? You’re present, no room for thought to creep in.

That tells us something about the nature of time.

If we’re curious enough to look at life without the filter of our thoughts, without the opinions we cling to that give us a false sense of reality, we can see beyond them.

We can see the beauty in everything and everyone, in any moment. We can see more of the whole, rather than a fraction of it, as if we’re looking at reality through a toilet paper tube.

Love is how.

It stops time, empties our minds, and helps us see clearly. It enriches the quality of our thoughts, of our memory, which changes how we feel about our existence.

If we choose to live this way, to meet each moment with curiosity over conclusion, to see the world with an open mind and open heart, in our final moments we’ll look back on more of our lives with a smile.

We’ll remember the times we cured conflict with curiosity. With love. Because where there is curiosity, there is no thought or time, no space for opposing conclusions to go to war.

With love, we get more life.

And if when we wake up each morning we can remind ourselves of this simple fact, then our lives too will be described as timeless, right next to the moments that took our breath away, the Mona Lisa, Hey Jude, and the beauty of the sun setting on the horizon.