The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind onto whatever screen it fits with least distortion.
Interpretation
Love is often a reflection of our own minds and perceptions rather than an objective reality.
This quote by Arthur C. Clarke suggests that the person we believe we love is not a true representation of who they are, but rather how we perceive and project our feelings onto them. It implies that our understanding and expectations of love are shaped by our own thoughts and biases, which can distort the true essence of the other person.
In practice
During a relationship advice seminar.
Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world. Whatsoever life we meet will be as strange and alien as the nightmare creatures of the ocean abyss, or of the insect empire whose horrors are normally hidden from us by their microscopic scale.
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand.
My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.
Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.
Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test.
The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired.
Hold on to the reins of Love and donβt be afraid. _x000D_ Hold on to the real behind the false and donβt be _x000D_ afraid.
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.
Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.
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