Opening to Life: Love, Courage, & the Willingness to Be Here

“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word 'love' here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy by stuff - but in the tough and universal sense of quest, and daring, and growth.” – James Baldwin

𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙪𝙥 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙛𝙪𝙡𝙡𝙮. 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨, 𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙚, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚.

If we open ourselves to the vastness that life has to offer, the good and the bad, we open ourselves to a vastness within. Jack explores the quality of love necessary to show up to this life and all it has to offer.

𝐖𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐚𝐜𝐤:

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Only to the extent that a person exposes themselves over and over to annihilation, can that which is indestructible be found within them.