but then what should we live for
once love has gone away?
the stars are darker than the night
and darker still the day

The Meaning of Love

"Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized but yet ought to be actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of the what he can be and of what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true."

Viktor Frankl

as time grows shorter everyday

i long to be a bird

to do the things i hold so dear

like dance with souls that burn

and though for me their eyes are cold

i will not show my face

so please accept apologies

and keep my secret safe

love/sex

Viktor Frankl, a Jewish mystic and Holocaust survivor, was the founder of Logotherapy and Existential Analysis. His writings deal mainly with the meaning of life and observations of the world around us. I am inspired by his views on love and sex:

Frakl explains that in modern society, the world confuses and blends the two very separate indentities of love and sex. Without love, he says, sex is nothing more than masturbation, and the other is nothing more than a tool to be used, a means to an end.

Sex can only be fully enjoyed as the physical expression of love.

I feel that today sex can sometimes completely miss the path of enjoyment, becoming instead a form of self destructive mutilation. Disrespecting one's body is the same as disrespecting a divine temple. It is easy to lose one's way, but guided by love and (both internal and external) forgiveness, we can always find our way back into the light.

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