... sometimes I can feel it, the way we are pouring slowly toward a curve and around it through something dark and soft, and we are bound to each other.
Interpretation
This quote reflects the deep emotional connection shared between individuals, highlighting a sense of unity amidst uncertainty.
Sharon Olds beautifully encapsulates the experience of profound love and connection between people. The imagery of pouring slowly through a curve suggests a journey filled with intimacy and vulnerability, while the mention of darkness and softness evokes the complexities and comforts found in a deep relationship. The phrase 'we are bound to each other' emphasizes an unwavering commitment and the intertwining of lives that love fosters, no matter the challenges faced.
In practice
In a wedding ceremony to express the deep bond between partners.
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to college; a newspaper photograph of war; a breast self-exam; the tooth fairy; Calvinist parents who beat up their children; a gesture of love; seeing oneself naked over age 50 in a set of bright hotel bathroom mirrors.
Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it.
So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
When your mind is quiet, you enter into the flow of love, and you just flow from one moment to the next as naturally as breathing. Whatever arises, I embrace it with love in the moment. This is my practice of polishing the mirror to reflect love. In this moment there is just awareness and love. If someone asks me how to get into their heart, I give them this practice: I Am Loving Awareness.
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
In 30 years of travel and training leaders -164 nations - I've never met anyone who didn't need massive doses of love.
We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
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