If only I had five different lifetimes. I would’ve been born in 5 diff places, meet five different sets of people. Eat five lifetimes worth of food. But only fall in love with one person over and over again
Memory & desire
This is the use of memory: For liberation—not less of love but expanding of love beyond desire, and so liberation from the future as well as the past.
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At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality. Perhaps it is one of the great dramas of the leader that he or she must combine a passionate spirit with a cold intelligence and make painful decisions without flinching. Our vanguard revolutionaries must idealize this love of the people, of the most sacred causes, and make it one and indivisible. They cannot descend, with small doses of daily affection, to the level where ordinary people put their love into practice.
One must have a large dose of humanity, a large dose of a sense of justice and truth in order to avoid dogmatic extremes, cold scholasticism, or an isolation from the masses. We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity is transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force.
Its a mad world, complete topsy-turvy.
But the day man learns to harness the energy of love, that will be as important as the discovery of fire.
—Paradoxical though it may seem, people are happy when they are at war. For them world has meaning. Total power or sacrificing themselves for a cause gives meaning to their lives. They are capable of limitless love, because they no longer have anything to lose.
A fatally wounded soldier never asks the medical team: “Please save me”. His last words are usually: Tell my wife and my son that I love them. “At the last moment, they speak of love”.
LOVE IS WAR. WAR IS LOVE.
War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states, or political groups, and it has existed ever since the emergence of private property and of classes.
History shows that wars are divided into two kinds, just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress are unjust.
The way to oppose a war of this kind is to do everything possible to prevent it before it breaks out and, once it breaks out, to oppose war with war, to oppose unjust war with just war, whenever possible.
Mistakes give us room for growth.
Modesty helps one to go forward, whereas conceit makes one lag behind. This is a truth we must always bear in mind.
Mongolian Creation Myth: out of two different natures love is born. In contradiction love grows in strength. In confrontation and transformation, love is preserved.
Dante wrote in the Divine Comedy.
The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into confusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.
The world will become real when man learns how to love, until then we will live in the belief that we know what love is, but we will always lack the courage to confront as it truly is.
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.
I believe that everyone you meet becomes a part of you. You are who you are because of people who went in and out of your life. We may think that we have fallen in love, a hundred times. But we can only truly fall in love once. There will be that person, with that one look and one smile who will touch your life, and it will never be the same again without them.
Mine just arrived. :)
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