Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government…Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony….You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you! If I went ‘round sayin’ I was an emporer just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!
-Dennis in Monty Python and the Holy Grail
The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s 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 another 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 given by the other.
Be kind, for everyone is fighting great battle.
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.” – Seneca
“Life is a marathon, not a sprint, run accordingly.”