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.
The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or orphaned or isolated or ill-timed—but strangely enough it can work better as a literal or reassuring statement than a transcendent or numinous or ecstatic one.
I was in the parking lot, with the key in the car, and I thought to myself: If this is my last night on earth, would I rather spend it at a business meeting or with this woman? I ran across the parking lot, asked her if she'd have dinner with me. She said yes, we walked into town, and we've been together ever since.
But I love you I'm totally and completely in love with you and I don't care if you think it's too late. I'm telling you anyway.
I've decided I am going to start loving my backside because I don't know anyone who does that. And for my daughter, I want to be able to say to her, 'I love this.'
Love doesn't need to be discussed; it has its own voice and speaks for itself.
I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.
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