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Romantic Love
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
What Shall God Fear?
I have wanted you, wanted you, out of what? love? need? true love is not possessive, jealousy is a learned response, but oh god, how to let go? how to love you, not own you, how to let you be?
June 1974Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
[Warm fantasies are easy to weave]
Warm fantasies are easy to weave on this pleasant, sunny day. I look into people’s faces as if well acquainted with their pain and joy.
June 1974Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Communicating
Lack of communication is the single greatest factor in the destruction of relationships. Often there are crossed patterns of communication, with one partner speaking past the other instead of to him.
June 1974
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
What A Mess
Wish I could say something about love, lust, marriage, jealousy and divorce. Boy, have I made a royal mess of these. I think my major problem has always been to reconcile my desire for a “true love” with a more universal kind of feeling. They are both so different.
June 1974
The Sun Interview
More Baba Ram Dass
You start with the energy to be somebody, then use it to become nobody.
January 1974
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