To a Long-Loved Love (The Irrational Season) “If we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.
It takes a lifetime to learn another person. After all these years I still do not undertand Hugh; and he certainly does not understand me. We’re still in the risky process of offering ourselves to each other, and there continue to be times when this is not easy, when the timing isn’t right, when we hurt eachother It takes a lifetime to learn all the varied ways of love…
When love is not possession, but participation, then it is part of that co-creation which is our human calling, and which implies such risk that it is often rejected.”
—Madeleine L’Engle
To a Long-Loved Love (The Irrational Season)
“If we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.
It takes a lifetime to learn another person. After all these years I still do not undertand Hugh; and he certainly does not understand me. We’re still in the risky process of offering ourselves to each other, and there continue to be times when this is not easy, when the timing isn’t right, when we hurt eachother It takes a lifetime to learn all the varied ways of love…
When love is not possession, but participation, then it is part of that co-creation which is our human calling, and which implies such risk that it is often rejected.”
—Madeleine L’Engle
