"No wonder commitment in love is so difficult. We have all this energy, all this yearning, all this capacity, we have infinity inside us, and, at a point, it all comes down to this, marrying one person--this particular man or woman--with all of his or her flaws and inadequacies, in this particular place and time.
Infinity limited by a finite choice.
But such is the nature of actual incarnate human love. True human love, beyond the abstract, beyond daydreams...is a deeply painful renunciation. But it is a renunciation that has the potential to healthily ground us in reality in a way that, to my mind, few other experiences can. To make a permanent commitment in love, in the particular, is to grow up in a very important way."
-Ronald Rolheiser
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