Its the first day of spring, thanks to google, greetings to all!

And Uma has a beautiful post on Father Anthony de Mello’s last meditations, on seeing beyond our valued illusions and images, and loving in contemplation.

Because most of the time, what you think you love, is nothing more than an image, a pretty picture you carry in your head about the person or thing you love. It is a sobering thought, he goes on to say, that the finest act of love you can perform, is not an act of service but an act of contemplation, of seeing

And why despite the social workers and philanthropy, real transformation seems out of reach

Or do the good deeds come out of the same greed and ambition which powers most people in the world of business or politics though in a different context? Or do we do what we do to take the edge off our boredom or anxiety, and not because we genuinely “see” what the right thing is, to do?