The first commandment is:
Love Life with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.
I know what this looks like, and what it feels like. I know how it feels to love life, and to be around people who love life.
It doesn’t have anything to do with their belief systems, or their occupations, or their circumstances, or their activities. It is a saying-yes, open-hearted embrace of everything that’s here. It’s a habit of paying attention to the needs of the moment, of taking the time to care.
There may be many directions on how to live a good life, many different interpretations of what that means. But they shouldn’t even be looked at first.
The first commandment comes from Life itself, not from anyone else’s instructions. So I have resolved to not ask any other source about it first. I might ask second, to hone and clarify my loving of Life. But first I will pay attention to Life, and to keeping the first commandment.
