As far as kinism is concerned, I say fie on that hell.
If you turn the ordo amoris into a pretext for withholding love from your neighbor, you are no better than the lawyer who wished to justify himself by asking, "Who is my neighbor?" (Luke 10:29).
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My identity is defined by the commitments and identifications which provide the horizon within which I can determine from case to case what is good, or valuable, or what ought to be done, or what I endorse or oppose. You're not my homeland anymore, so what am I defending now?
Each of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity; I can't even find the model by which to live outside myself. She wears short skirts, I wear T-shirts, she's cheer captain and I'm on the bleachers.
In the meaningful sense of ‘free’, in the sense of being able to act on one’s important purposes, the internally fettered man is not free. And I lived, and I learned; had you, got burned. But no amount of freedom gets you clean. I've still got you all over me.
There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. Lord, what will become of me
once I've lost my novelty?
Herder put forward the idea that each of us has an original way of being human. Each person has his or her own "measure" is his way of putting it. Heartbreakers gonna break, break, break, break, break. And the fakers gonna fake, fake, fake, fake, fake
To the extent that one can call on human constants, these are much more difficult to establish. And the suspicion dawns that in many cases such constants are of no avail. This is the last time I'm asking you this. Put my name at the top of your list.
We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our significant others want to see in us. Say you'll remember me. Standin' in a nice dress. Starin' at the sunset, babe.
Liberalism can't and shouldn't claim complete cultural neutrality. Liberalism is also a fighting creed. I don't hate you, but I hate to critique, overrate you. These beats of a dark heart, use basslines to replace you.
There is a widespread sense of loss here, if not always of God, then at least of meaning. You know it used to be mad love. So take a look what you've done.
By definition, for the porous self, the source of its most powerful and important emotions are outside the mind. This night is sparkling, don't you let it go.
Sonnet 18 was written in 1609. By that time, Stratford had in recent memory lost 1/4 of its population to Bubonic Plague. Shakespeare had lost friends, relatives, his three sisters and son. As a toddler, he narrowly survived the Black Death.
Then THIS:
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