As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

— William Shakespeare

GRATITUDE

WHAT THIS MEANS

Feeling does not answer to argument. You can list every reason a love is inconvenient, ill-timed or unwise, and the feeling will sit there unchanged, because it was never assembled out of reasons in the first place. Talking at it, whether your own talk or someone else’s, usually makes it louder rather than smaller. What actually moves it is time, distance, and what you choose to do.

If you are trying to reason yourself out of something you feel, stop negotiating with it and look at your choices instead. Decide what you will act on, and let the feeling be what it is.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What feeling of yours has survived every argument against it?

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