Here is a quote that Tara sent to me some months ago. I really like it. I think a lot of people use the word love loosely, and 'in love' to mean in love with a lover, but St. Augustine talks about these things in the opposite:
"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two."
-St. Augustine
A lot of thoughts about love these days.
hi! I couldn't see it on facebook, but ill take your word for it. email me your address and ill send you a little something!
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