seeing that saves

Thich Nhat Hanh: "Understanding is love's other name. If you don't understand, you can't love.”

Discomfort is the price of intimacy. Though what I feel for you is simple and pure, you are not. You are complicated in the way I am complicated. But I can’t and won’t reject your complexity.

In the beginning, there’s an almost anesthetic quality to finding something you really enjoy. You throw yourself into it, it takes you out of yourself. You stop thinking . And then as your relationship with it deepens, you gain a new consciousness that isn’t purely pleasurable. It’s mixed: both bitter and sweet. That knowledge is the price for deep... See more