Tetrogrammaton

Tetrackameter

In Romantic In romantic love, there's this longing for an ideal.

And when I say ideal, I'm not talking about something that is meant to dissipate.

We talk about contemplation, you know, really,

contemplation is a word that says you're going to make a template of heaven here in your own

body and your own life. That's a religious falling in love. So to keep the ideal,

but to allow the ideal to have its own life so that it can change

with you. It's almost always larger than you could ever imagine when you first started. And in many

ways that's the same, it's the same dynamic that we have to follow when we're in love with a person.

You do fall in love with an ideal to begin with, and rightly so. You need to be taken away from your

non-idealistic, unimaginative self, yeah. But if you have any maturity about or your granted

maturity in the path ahead, you're given to understand

that this ideal you've fallen in love with has its own life, actually, this person.

And so there's a wonderful phrase from Simon Weil, the French philosopher, she says, what we love

in other people is the hoped for satisfaction of our desires.

We do not love them for their desires.

If we love them for their desires, we should love them as ourselves.

And so what you've got to fall in love with is the desires that are in the

world that are in the person you've fallen in love with. And you're being invited along that fiery path.

There's beautiful lines by Pablo Neruda about him falling in love with poetry and with the world that poetry has the power to articulate.

So he says, and something ignited in my soul, fever or unremembered wings.

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