Short spoken excerpt from a YouTube video titled "The Hug of the Kalahari" (Phil Powis, Aug 23, 2023). The speaker contrasts cultural understandings of love with the Kalahari/divine notion of a hug, and recommends practicing appreciation for small things—food, nature, senses, and relationships—as an expression of love for life.
And when you read about them, they have an embodiment of love that is very different from what our culture does or maybe from our understanding of love. They talk about the hug of the Kalahari, the hug of the divine. Feel the hug from God. The way we can practice that would be feeling appreciation for the small things. Just look around you and really appreciate the food that you have, Appreciate the nature, appreciate your vision, your ability to hear, appreciate your relationships. It's really appreciating love for life.
