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“that incredible feeling of wholeness and aliveness is an emotional state of being that comes from deep within ourselves. that deep, blissful pure love we feel when we're falling in love is simply a reminder of the love and joy we're capable of experiencing. it reveals the love and passion that are already inside of us, waiting to be recognized and awakened, with or without the presence of a romantic partner.”

“It only now broke through Henrietta's consciousness how much of love was about touch -- and how destabilizing. All she wanted was to be with him, and this desire washed away everything else like the sea. The world was now surface landscape, mere background to her want and need: -he- was its gravitational pull, its chemical center. In their few moments of intimacy together, she had never felt less alone -- or more at home with herself. This must be the true power of love: the willingness to leave one's world behind for a place that had been hiding deep inside you all along, another lost island. She was stunned to realize she didn't mind the prospect....”

“I caught his hand. “What do you want me to do?” Leaning down, he kissed the pulse beating on my neck just above the damaged skin. “Tomorrow, I need you to die.”

“The equivalent of humans searching for their “real selves” is small cats chasing their tails. For it seems to me that there is no “real self”. We humans are ever-shifting, dynamic entities and not unchangeable, rigid selves. And even if there were a kind of centrum within us that we could call an “inner self”, we would never reach down to it, because of our natural biases about what we are and what our place in the world is. When we look in the mirror, we don’t see what we are, but we see what we want to be. Yet, as elusive as the search for self is, so clear is what we have to do on earth: to love and take care of each other. Life is too short and too miraculous to waste it on something other than love and joy!The equivalent of humans searching for their “real selves” is small cats chasing their tails. For I believe that there is no “real self”. We humans are ever-shifting, dynamic entities and not unchangeable, rigid selves. And even if there were a kind of centrum within us that we could call an “inner self”, we would never reach down to it, because of our natural biases about what we are and what our place in the world is. When we look in the mirror, we don’t see what we are, but we see what we want to be. Yet, as elusive as the search for self is, so clear is what we have to do on earth: to love and take care of each other. Life is too short and too miraculous to waste it on something other than love and joy!”