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Throughout 2001 event after event seemed to confirm that this book should be written, but then I accepted a job as business manger for a university department.
In doing so life became mostly about work and the book once again got put on the shelf. That is not to say the decision was wrong. The years at the university provided the opportunity to put into practice what I had spent so many years studying. Although far from perfectly, by observation and action I proved for myself that the principles of love could be used effectively in the workplace without loss of authority or productivity. And, while I didn't actually do much in the way of writing, the three hour commute was used to record those observations and make notes for the book. I am profoundly grateful for that opportunity and believe this book could not be written without that experience.
James and I left the big city and our respective management jobs in Junem 2005 to move to Powell River, a small town on the west coast of British Columbia. We both happily pursued our art and I became heavily involved in the community. It was not until December of 2006 that I once again took up the challenge of the book and made the decision to put it on the Internet as it was being written. So I created a website, obtained the domain name and put up the chapters that had been painstakingly written and revised in the previous ten years.
Then I had what can only be called a crisis of faith. I looked at the words written over and over and over and, while the words written were true enough, there was something wrong; I just didn't know what. So for the next two years, while living a very busy and mostly happy life, there was an ongoing internal struggle to figure out why the book was on hold; why I couldn't write any more.
The difference this time was that, instead of being put on the shelf to collect dust, it was online where people who were searching very specifically for pages on the subject of love could find it. In the first year and most of the second only two or three people a week found the site. Then because of an upsurge in the popularity of altruism that number has grown. Coincidentally, I found the answer to what was bothering me.
In the 4th century BC the Greek philosopher Empedocles argued for the existence of two forces, love (philia) and strife (neikos), which were used to account for the causes of motion in the universe. These two forces were said to intermingle with the classical elements, i.e., earth, water, air, and fire, in such a manner that love served as the binding power linking the various parts of existence harmoniously together.