Love me, love my fool

“I must learn to love the fool in me – the one who feels too much, talks to much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laught and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my fool.”

    ~Love me, love my fool: Thoughts from a phsycoanalysts notebook

           By, Theodore Isaac Rubin

Quote.

Jonathan Carroll posted this quote by André Gide on his blog and I liked it enough to pass it on here as well. Enjoy.

"Look for your own. Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings."

Love is not a feeling...

It is an ability.

Random Quote.

"Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless-- it will change. It will not be broken: it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."

C.S. Lewis