Love of The Personal Kind

Toshiyuki Enoki

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it. We are one, after all, you and I. Together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other. Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation. Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis. It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.

~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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“She did not need much, wanted very little. A kind word, sincerity, fresh air, clean water, a garden, kisses, books to read, sheltering arms, a cosy bed, and to love and be loved in return.”

— starra neely blade

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“Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe. There is no gift for the beloved. The lover alone possesses his gift of love. The loved one is shorn, neutralized, frozen in the glare of the lover’s inward eye.”

— Toni Morrison — The Bluest Eye

I’ve made a lot of poor decisions in the personal love department. I had a lot to learn. I’m…