Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Interpretation
Romantic love often turns out to be an illusion that fades over time, revealing a more complex reality.
In this quote, Thomas Moore suggests that romantic love is often perceived as an idyllic and passionate experience, but this initial enchantment can diminish as relationships progress. He notes that people frequently realize this truth at the conclusion of romantic relationships or when the fervent feelings of love transition into the more subdued reality of marriage, highlighting the complexities and challenges inherent in long-term relationships.
In practice
This quote could be used in a discussion about the nature of love during a marriage counseling session.
When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the body as a machine, whose muscles are like pulleys and its organs engines, forces its poetry underground, so that we experience the body as an instrument and see its poetics only in illness.
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the undertones? We are a radically bottom-line society, eager to act and to end tension, and thus we lose opportunities to know ourselves for our motives and our secrets.
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
At 14 I discovered girls. At that time dancing was the only way you could put your arm around the girl. Dancing was courtship.
People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.
Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.
I am a Christian person, and I do love the Lord, and I feel no matter who you are, what you believe, how you live your life, it's not my place to judge. I don't have that power. I don't want that power. It's my place to love and to show God's love to other people, even if they don't live a life like I live.
For we love not God first, to compel him to love again; but he loved us first, and gave his Son for us, that we might see love and love again, saith St John in his first epistle.
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