I'm electric with vertigo, even though I'm on the ground, vertigo like I felt once when I stood on the edge of a high cliff in Arizona and looked straight down.
If we are stretching to live wiser and not just smarter, we will aspire to learn what love means, how it arises and deepens, how it withers and revives, what it looks like as a private good but also a common good. I long to make this word echo differently in hearts and ears__ot less complicated, but differently so. Love as muscular, resilient. Love as social__ot just about how we are intimately, but how we are together, in public. I want to aspire to a carnal practical love__ros become civic, not sexual and yet passionate, full-bodied. Because it is the best of which we are capable, loving is also supremely exacting, not always but again and again. Love is something we only master in moments.
Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
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If we are stretching to live wiser and not just smarter, we will aspire to learn what love means, how it arises and deepens, how it withers and revives, what it looks like as a private good but also a common good. I long to make this word echo differently in hearts and ears__ot less complicated, but differently so. Love as muscular, resilient. Love as social__ot just about how we are intimately, but how we are together, in public. I want to aspire to a carnal practical love__ros become civic, not sexual and yet passionate, full-bodied. Because it is the best of which we are capable, loving is also supremely exacting, not always but again and again. Love is something we only master in moments.
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