It is only when love becomes all-inclusive that you touch the boundless. And that is when you realize a simple truth: the soul does not need a mate.
只有当爱变得包容一切时，你才能触碰到无限。那时你会意识到一个简单的事实：灵魂不需要伴侣。
If you have too many romantic delusions, even if you are married to the most wonderful person, it will definitely crash because you cannot delude yourself forever. If you want to live sensibly and joyfully, it is important to remember that marriage is a human arrangement, not a celestial one. Marriage can be a very pleasant experience as long as you know it is not the ultimate.
如果你有太多浪漫的幻想，即便你嫁给了最美好的人，你们的关系也一定会崩塌，因为你不能永远欺骗自己。如果你想要明智而快乐地生活，重要的是记住婚姻是人类的安排，而不是上天的安排。婚姻可以是一段非常愉快的经历，只要你知道它不是最终极的。
Love does not need an object. Love is simply a quality. If the person you love is not in your physical presence, you are still capable of loving them. If the people you love cease to exist, you still continue to love them. This means you are using people around you as mere stimuli to find expression for this innate quality. If you bring sufficient awareness to your discriminatory intellect, love is the only way you can be. Love is not about what you do. Love is the way you are. Love is simply life longing for itself. This longing is essentially to become all-inclusive and boundless. It is only when love becomes all-inclusive that you touch the boundless. And that is when you realize a simple truth: the soul does not need a mate. It never has.
爱不需要对象。
爱只是一种品质。
如果你所爱的人不在你身边，你仍然能够爱他们。如果你爱的人不复存在，你还会继续爱他们。这意味着你只是在利用你周围的人作为刺激物来找到这种内在品质的表达。
如果你赋予你的辨识力充分的觉知，爱是你唯一的存在方式。
爱不是你做什么。爱就是你存在的方式。爱就是生命对自身的渴望。这种渴望本质上是要变得包容一切，变得无边无际。只有当爱变得包容一切时，你才能触碰到无限。那时你会意识到一个简单的事实：灵魂不需要伴侣。它从来没有伴侣。
