Tuesday, June 7, 2011

unlimited love, limited choices.

"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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