Greed subsumes love and compassion; living simply makes room for them.
Living simply is the primary way everyone can resist greed every day.
-Bell Hooks, All About Love
Here are a few other Bell Hooks quotes I found recently in an old notebook from my halcyon days of first discovering her work:
Fear is the primary force upholding structures of domination. It promotes the desire for separation, the desire not to be known. When we are taught that safety lies in sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat. When we choose to love we choose to move against fear – against alienation and separation.
THE CHOICE TO LOVE IS A CHOICE TO CONNECT – TO FIND OURSELVES IN THE OTHER.
-Bell Hooks, All About Love
and…
It is the gift perfect love offers. To receive the gift, we must first understand that ‘there is no fear in love’. But we do fear and fear keeps us from trusting in love.
-Bell Hooks, All About Love
and one last goodie (though I could quote her for days)…
As we love, fear necessarily leaves.
-Bell Hooks, All About Love
When I found out she had passed I cried. Her words are a blessing.
I love all of you little bunnies in your bunny suits. Go live and love as simply as you can.