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The Intelligence of Love
Italy is a country ready to bend over to the worst governments. It’s a country where everything goes wrong, as you know. It is a country where disorder, cynicism, incompetence and confusion reign. And yet, on the streets, you can hear intelligence circulating, like vivid blood. It’s an intelligence that is obviously useless. It is not spent for the benefit of any institution that can improve the human condition a little bit. However it warms the heart and comforts it, even if it is a deceptive, and perhaps senseless, comfort.
Natalia Ginzburg — The Little Virtues (1972)
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As soon as the mind perceives something, it clings to that perception; then it appraises the object as being desirable, offensive, or neutral; finally, taking action on the basis of this distorted perception with desire, aversion, or indifference, it accumulates karma.”
~Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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In a love relation, as Jung once put it, you risk everything.
You put yourself on a table, you stop the power game and the trying to dominate or conquer the other person.
If you succeed in really loving the other person, if you really relate, then all sort of miracles happen.
