I'm talking about a community of meaning and love. I know it is possible to find meaning and love in other places. But to find a community of meaning and love, one must be open to the possibility that those things exist. And open to the real love that can be mediated by people who want to share meaning and community. Demons get in the way of that.
People fall in love with their problems.
Dr. Siegel recalls having to give a diagnosis of cancer to a patient who took it curiously well. I have cancer now. Sometimes people would rather die then let go of the stability that they have. We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread.