“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.” ― La Rochefoucauld
Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.
-W.S Mervin, Separation.
I knew only one thing—which I have learned well by now: Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.
Viktor E Frankl • Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust
Uma das coisas que faz eros se recolher é acreditarmos que já sabemos tudo sobre o outro. Assim, perdemos o interesse por ele e, por consequência, a motivação de nos descobrirmos através dele.
Sri Prem Baba • Amar e ser livre: As bases para uma nova sociedade (Portuguese Edition)
If our loves are absorbed with material things, then our love is a weight that drags us downward to inferior things. But when our loves are animated by the renewing fire of the Spirit, then our weight tends upward.