We Need More Leo's in Our Life.

We need more Leo’s in our life! I know three. Two of them live in my hometown. One is older and has accomplished much due to generosity and an industrious nature. The other is very young, adventurous, and has his entire life ahead of him.

I just finished a re-read of the book BUS 9 TO PARADISE by another Leo. Buscaglia is his last name and although the book was published in l986 and Leo died in 1998, the book speaks to me today. If I tell you that he was known as “Dr. Love,” this will all start to make more sense.

Buscaglia, while teaching at USC, was moved by a student’s suicide to contemplate human disconnectedness and the meaning of life. He began a non-credit class called Love 1A. Can you imagine his full classrooms? At one point, his televised lectures were the top earners of all PBS programs.

For what it’s worth, I am sharing a few thoughts/quotes from his book.

 With everything going on in the world today….some of this may help.

*In reality we never lose the people we love. They become immortal through us. They continue to live in our hearts and minds and therefore participate in much of what we do…

*..in the act of forgiving we release ourselves from bondage…. To not forgive hurts us more than anyone else.

*…when we are loved, the people who love us want us to be what we are, not what they are.

*It’s a fact that all of us are just a little crazy, and… we should rejoice in our foolishness from time to time.

*Sometimes, to do nothing is to do something.

*You have a right to be yourself. So many of us live our lives to please others and conform to their image of us.
 

*We have been taught to follow the Golden Rule—not that we become shining examples of behavior, but that we realize one more way of better understanding one another.

Love God.

Love your fellow man.