In regards to love, Elder Zosima says this:
"Fanciful love thirsts for a quick deed, swiftly accomplished, and that everyone should gaze upon it...Active love, on the other hand, involves work and self-mastery, and for some it may even become a whole science." (The Brothers Karamazov, pg 62)
Go Elder Zosima, you're the (holy) man.
3 comments:
Ah, love.... It is so difficult to fathom, any wisdom is welcome. Sometimes I wonder whether love is real at all, other times I let is consume me. Is it all just the complexity of the human brain preying on itself, or is it the glue that keeps society together?
At the risk of getting all Charles Darwiny, the human brain has evolved an efficient means to prey on itself (ie neurotransmitters like serotonin, the 'love' biochemical) - to keep society together and reproducing (evil brain).
Weird loners, such as myself, laugh in the face of serotonin. Although, when I was younger I wasn't so strong. And in the face of lust and dodgy birth-control methods, I could just as easily have been typing this while watching over Effulgent13 junior.
i think karamazov is onto something there. being a terrible reader am grateful for the selective quote - thanks to effulgent13. there is no way i could read the whole book in under ten years.
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