It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was aware of the other before we met, there was a kind of mindless certainty bumming blithely along beneath our ignorance that ensured we would come together. Like two solitary birds flying the great prairies by celestial reckoning, all of these years and lifetimes we have been moving toward one another.
Interpretation
The quote reflects the inevitable connection and destiny between two people despite their initial ignorance of each other.
In this quote, Robert James Waller beautifully illustrates the notion of destined love, suggesting that two individuals may unconsciously be drawn to each other over time. He uses the imagery of solitary birds navigating through vast prairies to convey how, although they were unaware of each other's presence, their paths were always meant to converge, highlighting the profound and often mysterious nature of human relationships.
In practice
This quote can be shared at a wedding to emphasize the couple's destined connection.
This is why I'm here on this planet, at this time, Francesca. Not to travel or make pictures, but to love you. I know that now. I have been falling from the rim of a great, high place, somewhere back in time, for many more years than I have lived in this life. And through all of those years, I have been falling toward you.
I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been.
To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure. Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided like mercury then gathered up only at the last moment.
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
Is it easy to love God' asks an old author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it.' I have included two Graces under the word Charity. But God can give a third. He can awake in man, towards Himself, a supernatural Appreciative love. This is of all gifts the most to be desired. Here, not in our natural loves, nor even in ethics, lies the true centre of all human and angelic life. With this all things are possible.
Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.
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