Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
that behavior is open for inspection very clearly in right Now. And
it's amazing how when you are the Now, literally, how
spontaneously your actions take care of the Now, regardless of
how they look. And that's just surrender, and then don’t look back.
TRIP: Good advice. So, Francis, you wrote, "As long as there are
others, our conduct cannot be rooted in love". That's like a big
wow because almost every romantic book every written and every
movie ever made [Laughs] about so-called love is actually BS,
right? Because all of them have two people that are looking at each
other, right?
WIZARD: It's desire.
TRIP: None of that's love, right? Francis?
FRANCIS LUCILLE: It depends; it is certainly not sexual desire, or
passion, and some sensation. Love is when you are able to put
yourself in the other person's shoes so to speak, so that you are
free from your own identification so that you can see the situation,
embrace the other, the body of the other as being your own body.
WIZARD: Yes.
TRIP: Francis, we can’t hear you. Are you still there?
FRANCIS LUCILLE: Watching the same beautiful mountains.
TRIP: So being in that beautiful, natural place probably is a very
healing and nurturing environment. How lucky you are to be
looking at the mountains.
FRANCIS LUCILLE: Well I've not always lived in this beautiful
way. I remember a long time ago finding myself in France at night
during the winter, it was very cold, in a train station outside on the
platform. And there was a little house, a little protection, it was
dirty, and people were smoking in it, and there was only one
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