Choosing Love & Connection

Our scientific, materialistic, competitive and individualistic culture conflicts with the spiritual realities of love, compassion and connectedness.  Personally, I am very acutely aware of the conflict and I have learned to live with it.  Others that I work with feel the conflict acutely and have internalized it.  Having internalized the conflict, it gives them a large amount of difficulty and contributes to  myriad emotional and physical problems.  I have made the choice to live according to love, compassion and connectedness, but then, I am an old man who finds it easy to be a bit eccentric and not fit in.