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What does it mean to love?

(Don't answer that question. I borrowed it from BillyFiveCrows. It's a beautiful question and I'm working out the details.)

I spoke with my cousin this evening and she said the most amazing thing! She said, "If I could un-invent something, it would probably be tapioca." "That's going in the book," I said. "And maybe on the back cover somewhere, too."

"These passions, simple but overwhemingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy...
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"If you can let go of Tao with your mind and surround it with your heart, it will live inside you forever." -Lao Tzu