"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
~ Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms



"Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey sequence of bumping into's and tumblings apart."
~ Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet



Friday, September 6, 2013

Love ~ Feeling, Falling & Blindness


Love is not given or taken ~ it is realized. It is awakened to ~ as from a deep sleep...

To know love is to search for who to love. A subject of fidelity. To choose to love is irrational. Inherent in the journey is risk. Trepidation draws the foot back from the edge while fear closes the possibility to love. Perhaps this explains the penchant for characterizing love as falling or as blindness? To move with abandon towards love is to close our eyes and tumble towards it in the dark. Kissing with our eyes shut reminds us of the vertigo, darkness and inexplicable simplicity of a lips touching - love's manifestation of feeling and surrender.

Love is time delicately shared. Love is wiping tears from weeping eyes. Love is movement. Love is accepting the loss of love.

Love is a relationship which grows from an emotional attachment, a connectedness of feeling emanating from the soul of being. This makes the physicalness - a kiss, a touch, an embrace...sublime. It also provokes intense pain when absence or betrayal of the attachment enters the heart. It is not infidelity to the physical act of intimacy which causes pain but the emotion and meaning behind it, within it, and the possibility of what may be ahead of it which strains the very core of what it means to be human. This I believe in some way begins to approach what love is and is not.



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  1. AnonymousSeptember 7, 2013 at 11:13 AM

    Love.... sensitivity.....'other centered'
    Its caring, loving, protects, provides, and builds up. When we exchange sensitivity for sensuality, we are driven by egotism, materialism, or sex.......and our hearts become hardened.....maybe this is too simplistic.

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