I am grateful for progress.

A beautiful quote from John O’Donahue, on friendship and conversations:

When was the last time you had a great conversation? A conversation that wasn’t just two intersecting monologues, but when you overheard yourself saying things you never knew you knew, that you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that found places within you that you th

"There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way." - Thich Nhat Hahn

It would be odd to say that the conversation of love “progresses,” as if it were a scientific discipline or a child working her way through units in a grade school math class. Sometimes love’s discussions are exchanges of expressions of affection, or bouts of repartee so piquant that their patter is elevated into verbal art, as in Cavell’s comedies

How long is the conversation of love?

Nothing less than everlasting would be enough. Not all loves do endure, but it is essential to love that we believe it will, that we want it to, because an orientation toward eternity is part and parcel of what it is to have fai

It is difficult to say anything more general about the inequalities inimical to love, because different kinds of disparities can inhibit or kill conversation, depending on the kind of conversation it is.

Sometimes one person is too slow, like Bruce, or too silly, like Mr. Collins, or too desperate to impress, like Miss Bingley, or too puffed up and

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi