We long to possess others in order to kill our desire for them because it is so painful. and in a lot of cases one we have possessed them we no longer want them, it is only the
It’s not that we are unrealistic, it’s that reality is unbearably disappointing. Only anticipation is satisfying Love and desire bring out the worst in us – make us craven, servile, arrogant, domineering, paranoid, obsessional, hysterical, distracted and deranged – and yet, there is nothing else we want except, as Adam
Philips points out, prestige and the admiration of others, which are desires born of our passionate love affair with ourselves.
It’s not that we are unrealistic, it’s that reality is unbearably disappointing. Only anticipation is satisfying Love and desire bring out the worst in us – make us craven, servile, arrogant, domineering, paranoid, obsessional, hysterical, distracted and deranged – and yet, there is nothing else we want except, as Adam
Philips points out, prestige and the admiration of others, which are desires born of our passionate love affair with ourselves.
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