To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.
Interpretation
True love involves selflessness and a release from ego.
This quote by Jeanette Winter speaks to the transformative power of love, suggesting that genuine affection for someone else can lead to a sense of freedom. When we are able to put aside our own needs and desires, even if just for a fleeting moment, we experience a liberation from our self-centeredness, allowing us to connect deeply with another person.
In practice
During a wedding ceremony to emphasize the power of love.
It's exciting and it's thrilling and it's not particularly threatening, because they're not overtly sexual. A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, that's a shorthand for all the feelings that they're not ready to deal with yet.
Love demands expression. It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no. It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid.
I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.
Her vivid smile was like a light held up to dazzle me.
Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.
God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
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