Thanks Francis for your transparency as always. It doesn’t take much for me to agree and understand if we all stop needing anything material, we as well as the earth would be all better for it. That’s easy to see for me with the way we are speeding up to self-destruction with the exponential out of control consumerism…

I can respect and understand that for some finding the flow of love from within removes need to connect with anyone…I’m happy you’re there.

I love humans in general too much such that it flows from me to others…I would just rather die if that connection to others didn’t exist. For me life is solely about relationships, you take that away from me, you take away my oxygen.

But having said that, I can understand and have met and read from many who are perfectly content with who they are and their self love. I would hope that so long as we do agree on what love and respect to others is—harm to others for any reason is prevented. Living peacefully sharing this planet will be impossible if we don’t see others with the same love and respect as ourselves , assuming self love means pure and non-harming acceptance.

Anyhow…diving into philosophy….

Thanks for the food for thought!

Impressed with the minimalist lifestyle…I’ll work on letting go of needs, it’s a worthy cause.