The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person – without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not give[n] by the other.
Then why do they want to be together? It is no longer a need; it is a luxury. Try to understand it. Real persons love each other as a luxury; it is not a need. They enjoy sharing: they have so much joy, they would like to pour it into somebody. And they know how to play their life as a solo instrument.
The solo flute player knows how to enjoy his flute alone. And if he comes and finds a tabla player, a solo tabla player, they will enjoy being together and creating a harmony between the flute and the tabla. Both will enjoy it: they will both pour their richness into each other.
Aloha :D My name is Normie Jean, but I'm more simply known as Normie, Norms or Mimi. Lived a journey 22 chapters long, and I'm still aiming to discover the lifetime purpose given to me by God, and to continue, each day, evolving and growing as a person. I am a lover of God, my Catholic faith, my family and friends, whom I've coined as the "wonderful people" and a multitude of simple life-joys: discovering inspiration from a wide sp»
It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop.an of sources and in all different shapes and sizes, music (a feel-good therapy for the soul), reading and writing my world away, laughing until my stomach hurts, having heart to heart, random, intellectual conversations, learning new things, dancing for fun, being involved, living healthy, living Hawaii <3 chilling with my four-legged stress relievers, (my dogs, Peace and Nibbie) and the list traverses onward.
"We are the light of the world. Let our light shine before all, that they may see the good that we do and give glory to God."
"I can do all things, for He gives me strength."
