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“Life is love. That’s the currency of life itself.”
Arthur Brooks believes love sits at the heart of a meaningful life. Across research, neuroscience, philosophy and spirituality, he argues that we’re built not only to love other people, but to allow ourselves to receive love in return.
♾️ Love is what Arthur calls the “currency of life”
💛 Happiness requires both giving and receiving love
💫 Chasing status and achievement can distract us from what matters most
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Transcript
You not be happy if you don't love someone? We're made to love and be loved. That's how we're made. I best I was doing a a show not long ago, and they had this big philosophical question at the end. What is life? We are made biologically, neuroscientifically, cosmically, spiritually, theologically, philosophically, all of it to love and be loved. And I've got a 100 ways to Sunday to show that with the research that you won't be happy unless you love others, unless you give people the opportunity to love you. And so therefore, life is love. That's the currency of life itself. It's the beating heart of what life actually means. And when we lose that, when we distract ourselves from that by our wonderful specialness, we miss the very reason that we're alive in the first place.