To the extent to which that love carries commitment along with it, we are partners in each other's destiny.
What we do affects the other, a piece of us lives in the heart and mind of that other person.
What piece of us do we want to live on in the mind of another? When they turn inward to find us, who will they find? What will we have left behind us as a legacy of that relationship?
We may have made mistakes or hurt someone without understanding what we were doing, but today be mindful; be honest and try not to harm.
We cannot control how another person acts or feels, but we can be aware of what we put into our relationships.
We can have conscious interactions.
Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny. ~ Quentin Crisp
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