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Jack Kornfield says we can love and care for others but we cannot…
“Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the … Continue reading
Marcel Proust says it is a terrible deception of love…
‘It’s a terrible deception of love that it begins by engaging us in play not with a woman of the external world but with a doll fashioned in our brain—the only woman moreover that we have always at our disposal, the only one … Continue reading
Jan-Philipp Sendker says I am not referring to those outbursts of passions…
“Of course I am not referring to those outbursts of passions that drive us to do and say things we will later regret, that delude us into thinking we cannot live without a certain person, that set us quivering with … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, attempted love, bounds, death, delude, flourish, human spirit, impoverishes, jan-philipp sendker, live natural laws, love, meaning, outbursts, passions, possess, possibility, selfishness, the art of hearing heartbeats, triumph
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Rainer Maria Rilke says that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks…
“For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. I hold this to be the … Continue reading
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Tagged attempted love, bond, give, letters to a young poet, love, miracle, possess, proof, Rainer Maria Rilke, solitude, test
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Dorothy L. Sayers says we can’t possess one another…
“For God’s sake, let’s take the word ‘possess’ and put a brick round its neck and drown it … We can’t possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.” – Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman’s Honeymoon
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Tagged attempted love, busman's honeymoon, dorothy l. sayers, love, possess
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