Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market. Immature love says "I love you because I need you. "Mature love says "I need you because I love you Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be...Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before. As long as anyone believes that his ideal and purpose is outside him, that it is above the clouds, in the past or in the future, he will go outside himself and seek fulfillment where it cannot be found. He will look for solutions and answers at every point except where they can be found--in himself. The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers. Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much. There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail. The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have. Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not towards one 'object' of love. |