Love is so important. When we are in pain, if someone is there for us, loving us, we receive the greatest gift in the world and we ultimately hurt a lot less. I hope that someday we shall reach a point where it is normal for people to love well and fully. It's certainly not that we don't have enough information about how to love, but many of us don't have the ability because we weren't loved ourselves. The best way around this problem is to practice and rehearse loving behavior daily.
It's hard for people who don't know how to play, who've lost that childlike quality, to be lovers because they are more likely to be hostile. Love and play go together. People who have studied pathological killers say that many of them just don't know how to play. They can't kid around. Everything is serious.
Laughter brings out the child in everybody. It diffuses much of the fear and resentment people have of one another, making it easier to be loving. Just look at a baby picture and you'll know how easy it is to love that child. Now look in the mirror. Do you have the same feelings? Why not?
“It has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly's wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world.”
