Monday, August 11, 2008

Rock and Watts. Not Kid, Chris.

"Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment. Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. Light shines in darkness because what else could it shine in? Life is a game, the first rule of which is that it is not a game. There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. You cannot talk yourself into it or rouse it by straining at the emotions or by dedicating yourself solemnly to the service of mankind. Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself. This conviction will not come through condemnations, through hating oneself, through calling self love bad names in the universe. It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love."


and the others?

"You don't have many choices in life, including who you love. But how you love that person it's your choice."


Questions?