Love

Love is a form of unilateral disarmament: an instinctual willingness for vulnerability that overwhelms our surface defences and at the same time, rids us in a frightening way, of the need for defences at all: love is frightening, exactly because it overwhelms and disarms us, takes us apart and strangely, simplifies us into something more real, more... See more

Love is merciless because in its raw elemental form, it is non-negotiable, it does not ask for reciprocation or for our affections to be requited, love just wants to take the path to a deeper and greater love and will burn away in its fire any who will not follow its uncompromising way. Love, we are afraid to discover, just wants us to love