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Charles Bukowski Match-Making Services
Jun. 13th, 2005 07:27 amUnder the auspices of being the sole member of the You Made It To Madison Welcoming Committee, I met ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
antarcticlust as she arrived in the fine city of Madison. I am pleased to announce that she is every bit as engaging and eloquent in person as she is in her journal. We went to Kabul's and had a wonderful dinner. Throw in a small tour of downtown and a sunset over the lake at James Madison, thoroughly glaze with stimulating and heartfelt conversation and bake at 80-something degrees until sweating and you have a good recipe for our evening.
While at work later in the evening, I came across two quotes that I love. One is new, from the Terry Pratchett novel I'm reading and the other is old from I don't even know where. The first is, "No sane mortal is truly free, because true freedom is so terrible that only the mad and the divine can face it with open eyes." This makes me wonder which one I am. Maybe both. [insert ecstatic cackle here]
The second quote is such, "With every heartbreak and disillusionment we get a little closer to our 'true selves' and the less we need to repeat our errors. We'll discover the heart that doesn't break and the mind that sees through itself. Our disappointments are actually spiritual victories, telling us when we're off track, and many times - how to get back on."
This is something I have had to learn many times, over and over again, and have only really come to a deep and complete understanding of it in the last few months. Rather than understanding it as an intellectual possibility, I have finally imprinted it as a spiritual reality. I daresay, I have finally found the heart that doesn't break, but unlike the cold and closed, it is still capable of opening and unfolding fully and expressing both eros and agape.
antarcticlust as she arrived in the fine city of Madison. I am pleased to announce that she is every bit as engaging and eloquent in person as she is in her journal. We went to Kabul's and had a wonderful dinner. Throw in a small tour of downtown and a sunset over the lake at James Madison, thoroughly glaze with stimulating and heartfelt conversation and bake at 80-something degrees until sweating and you have a good recipe for our evening.While at work later in the evening, I came across two quotes that I love. One is new, from the Terry Pratchett novel I'm reading and the other is old from I don't even know where. The first is, "No sane mortal is truly free, because true freedom is so terrible that only the mad and the divine can face it with open eyes." This makes me wonder which one I am. Maybe both. [insert ecstatic cackle here]
The second quote is such, "With every heartbreak and disillusionment we get a little closer to our 'true selves' and the less we need to repeat our errors. We'll discover the heart that doesn't break and the mind that sees through itself. Our disappointments are actually spiritual victories, telling us when we're off track, and many times - how to get back on."
This is something I have had to learn many times, over and over again, and have only really come to a deep and complete understanding of it in the last few months. Rather than understanding it as an intellectual possibility, I have finally imprinted it as a spiritual reality. I daresay, I have finally found the heart that doesn't break, but unlike the cold and closed, it is still capable of opening and unfolding fully and expressing both eros and agape.
