"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new." - Ursula K. LeGuin
Because love is active, not passive; it requires our continual involvement and attention and presence.
"Love conquers all. Let us too yield to love." - Virgil
Too often this quote gets cut off at "love conquers all" = "We can do what we want because love is fighting on our side and will conquer all the obstacles in our way." But that isn't what Virgil is saying. You and love are not to be conquering together - rather, allow love to conquer you. Everything else has the sense to yield to the power of love; let us too have that sense, rather than requiring love to fight for us, let us too like all else yield to love, be conquered by love.
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Date: 2004-08-06 08:31 am (UTC)Because love is active, not passive; it requires our continual involvement and attention and presence.
"Love conquers all. Let us too yield to love." - Virgil
Too often this quote gets cut off at "love conquers all" = "We can do what we want because love is fighting on our side and will conquer all the obstacles in our way." But that isn't what Virgil is saying. You and love are not to be conquering together - rather, allow love to conquer you. Everything else has the sense to yield to the power of love; let us too have that sense, rather than requiring love to fight for us, let us too like all else yield to love, be conquered by love.