Wearing through Stone

“Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one “object” of love. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. Yet, most people believe that love is constituted by the object, not by the faculty.”― Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

Not soft or fluffy
Naïve or ignorant
Rather tough, gritty, hard, work, impossible
The question and the answer
The only plan, strategy, resistance, meaningful action, what moves the needle
Overcomes, confronts, carries, challenges, pushes, pulls, turns upside down, transforms
A posture to take
A daily discipline
A decision to make again and again
Unfolding, deepening, surprising
Overflowing, abundant, refreshing
Poetry in motion
Love

“Love isn’t something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn’t a feeling, it is a practice.”― Fromm, Eric, The Art of Loving