Reciprocity is not love.

“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

Reciprocity. Also known as “doing something because you expect something in return”, is useful in life, but disastrous in love. While reciprocity can be highly useful and…

Give and Take

Why feel bad about taking, when we also have something to give?

How it is:

Someone asks for a favor. You are happy to do one for them. You happily go about doing this for them, with no concern for getting anything in return and no desire to. You’re…

I don’t see that thinking of education as “…inspiring, an expander of imagination, a life experience for creative living, or a pathway to self-awareness” is necessarily incompatible with the idea of education as something with value. All “value” really implies is that there is some sort of metric applied in decision making about how to spend our time…