#merging

It is also good to love: because love is difficult. For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.... Loving does not at first mean merging, surrendering, and uniting with another person (for what would a union be of two people who are unclarified, unfinished, and still incoherent?), it is a high inducement for the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world, to become world in himself for the sake of another person; it is a great, demanding claim on him, something that chooses him and calls him to vast distances... Merging and surrendering and every kind of communion is not for them (who must still, for a long, long time, save and gather themselves); it is the ultimate, is perhaps that for which human lives are as yet barely large enough. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#love #merging #surrender #love

In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#basis #civil #civil society #democracies #emerging

In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#been #democracy #emerging #free #free press

I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed. ↗

— Bette Davis

#bodies #emerging #exposed #i #long

I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#based #canada #destroying #emerging #environment

Of all the miracles Po had seen in the time and space of its death, Po thought this--the absorption of another, the carrying of it--was the most bewildering and remarkable of all. Whenever Bundle separated again, Po was left with an ache of sadness that reminded the ghost of the body it had left behind. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#afterlife #death #ghost #grief #loss

As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform. ↗

— Deborah Bull

#because #becoming #brain #dancers #decrease

In particular, the emerging call from our nation's evangelicals to protect God's creation is substantial. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

#creation #emerging #evangelicals #god #nation

So much of what happened to India late last year and early into 2011 is the same story we've seen with other big emerging markets, and that is that investors started to realize that the growth trajectory in India would have to get moderated by tightening policy. ↗

— Jerrry A. Webman

#early #emerging #get #growth #happened

But let no one be under any doubt that the scale of the challenge that Europe faces in this emerging global economy is immense and the practical pace of our collective action to meet these challenge to date has just been too slow. ↗

— John Hutton

#any #been #challenge #collective #date