To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship.
Interpretation
Love involves both accepting change and navigating through various phases in a relationship.
This quote highlights the dual nature of love, where one must be open to numerous beginnings and endings within the same relationship. Love is not static; it requires the ability to adapt and persevere through challenges while also celebrating new beginnings and transformations.
In practice
During a wedding ceremony as a reflection on the couple's journey.
Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes germination of consciousness. The properly shaped question always emanates from an essential curiosity about what stands behind. Questions are the keys that cause the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.
Tears are a river that takes you somewhere…Tears lift your boat off the rocks, off dry ground, carrying it downriver to someplace better.
Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode amounts to a crash and burn, there is always another episode awaiting us and then another. There are always more opportunities to get it right, to fashion our lives in the ways we deserve to have them. Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success.
Stories are medicine. They have such power; they do not require that we do, be, act anything - we need only listen.
There's a reason poets often say, 'Poetry saved my life,' for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul's suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation.
That is what the intuition is for: it is the direct messenger of the soul.
Let us cultivate love and compassion, both of which give life true meaning. This is the religion I preach. It is simple. Its temple is the heart. Its teaching is love and compassion. Its moral values are loving and respecting others, whoever they may be. Whether one is a lay person or a monastic, we have no other option if we wish to survive in this world.
Long after one has forgotten what a woman wore, the memory of her perfume lingers.
The people who are most attractive to me are those who feel most comfortable in their skin - there's a sense of self-acceptance.
The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.
Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly and wants to rip to shreds all your erroneous notions of the truth that make you fight within yourself, dear one, and with others, causing the world to weep on too many fine days... The Beloved sometimes wants to do us a great favor: Hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.
He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
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