Monday, January 12, 2015

Love is the bridge... (Carson McCullers)


Love is the bridge...

Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.  Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world.  [...]  Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication.  Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.  We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions:  Who am I?  Why am I?  Where am I going? – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.

--Carson McCullers, The Mortgaged Heart:  Selected Writings

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