Love ....for Wim

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"Love brings the real, and not just the ideal, vision of what others are

because it is a glimpse of what we are bodily. For what is ordinarily

called the body is an abstraction. It is the conventional fiction of an

object seen apart from its relation to the universe, without which it has no

reality whatsoever. But the mysterious and unsought uprising of love is the

experience of complete relationship with another, transforming our vision

not only of the beloved but of the whole world. And so it remains until the

relationship itself is itself abstracted by the anxiety of the grasping mind

to be guarded from the rest of life as a possession".

 

Joyce