There is much more to this book than the parts i quote,
i enjoy all of the book - it is violently clear.
an exceptional human and an exceptional woman
with exceptional perception.
"Love-making is never simpy pleasure."....
"The sexual exchange will be as complicated as the relationship in general-even more so."...
"To spend the whole night with someone is agape: it is ethical. For you must move with him and with yourself from the arms of the one twin to the abyss of the other. This shared journey, unsure yet close, honesty embracing dishonesty, changes the relationsip. It may not be a marriage, but it will be sacramental even without benefit of sacrament. To navigate this together is to achieve the mundane: to be present to each other, both at the point of difficult ecstasy and at the point of abysmal infinity, brings you into the shared cares of the finite world."
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"The tradition is much kinder in its understanding that to live, to love, is to be failed, to forgive, to have failed, to be forgiven, for ever and ever. Keep your mind in hell, and despair not."
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"To grow in love-ability is to accept the boundaries of oneself and others, while remaining vulnerable, woundable, around the bounds. Acknowledgement of conditionality is the only unconditionality of human love."
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