Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting their food. Gone are the civilized beings who talk of manners and journeys and letters; in their places are two bodies straining to give birth to a burst of inhuman pleasure followed by a great, floating nothingness. An explosion of life followed by death - in this we live, and in this we foreshadow our own sweet deaths.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on the primal and urgent nature of lovemaking, contrasting it with civilized behavior.
Margaret George's quote captures the raw, instinctual force of lovemaking that transcends civilized conversation and decorum. In the passionate act, individuals become more like animals, consumed by a powerful desire that leads to a fleeting moment of profound pleasure. This experience, however, is intertwined with the awareness of mortality, as it represents both the vitality of life and the inevitability of death, highlighting the duality of human existence.
In practice
Sharing this quote at a wedding to highlight the intensity of romantic relationships.
Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to keep peace we pretend to forget, but we never do. Strange that a spoken word can have such lasting power when words carved on stone monuments vanish in spite of all our efforts to preserve them. What we would lose persists, lodged in our minds, and what we would keep is lost to water, moths, moss.
Love has been taken away from the poets, and has been brought within the domain of true science. It may prove to be one of the great cosmic elementary forces. When the atom of hydrogen draws the atom of chlorine towards it to form the perfected molecule of hydrochloric acid, the force which it exerts may be intrinsically similar to that which draws me to you. Attraction and repulsion appear to be the primary forces. This is attraction.
Love, and a cough, are not concealed.
Dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.
She seemed to melt against him in her terror, and he caught her in his arms, held her fast there, felt her lashes beat his cheek like netted butterflies.
Through True Love, she merges with Him. She who does not know her Husband Lord, the Architect of karma, is deluded by falsehood she herself is false.
The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
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