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Saturday, November 13, 2010

love and projection

“Has anyone ever learned to love? We can withdraw our projection certainly, and by so doing we can learn to understand one another. But I do not believe anyone ever learned to love.
“Love happens. It is a miracle that happens by grace. We have no control over it. It happens. It comes, it lights our lives, and very often it departs. We can never make it happen nor make it stay.” Pg. 116

“The miracle of being in love is too overwhelming an experience ever to be dismissed as a projection. I do not believe for one moment that a projection can in itself light up the whole world. It is the love which goes with it that lights the world.” Pg. 118

- Irene Claremont de Castillejo, Knowing Woman: A Feminine Psychology

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