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Vol. 5, Love, Human and Divine
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4. The Moral of Love
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Continuing to Love
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Vol. 5, Love, Human and Divine
4. The Moral of Love
Continuing to Love
It is easy to begin to love, and this everybody, more or less, does; but it is difficult to continue to love, because love opens the eyes of the lover to see through the beloved, though it closes the eyes of the lover to all else. First, the more the lover knows the beloved, the more he begins to see the defects as well as the merits, which naturally in the beginning of love casts the beloved down from the high pedestal on which the lover had put her.
Another thing is that besides the attributes that attract the lovers to one another, there are inclinations in each which draw them asunder. The ego always plays a trick in bringing two hearts together and then separating them. Therefore in the world nearly everyone says, "I love", or "I have loved", but there are rare cases where love has been ever on the increase since it began. To a real lover it is an absurd thing to hear anyone say, "I have loved her, but now I love her no more."
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