"I have the opportunity now to be close to another in a more profound way."
Pythagoras asks that we not let a friend go lightly, for whatever reason. Instead, we should stay with a friend as long as we can, until we're compelled to abandon him completely against our will. It's a serious thing to toss away money, but to cast aside a person is even more serious. Nothing in human life is more rarely found, nothing more dearly possessed. No loss is more chilling or more dangerous than that of a friend. -Ficino
Apparently there is something in every relationship that is eternal, that goes on forever, that wants to be exempted from the life decision to cut ties. Obviously our relationships are not as simple or as limited in scope as we sometimes like to think them. There are only so many people you come to know in a lifetime, and an even smaller number with whom we live intimately. These relationships are all important to the soul. From the soul point of view, ending is a different experience of the relationship. Ending is not literal at all, but is rather a radical shift in imagination.
No comments:
Post a Comment