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♥ Monday, August 11, 2008

Why do we expect our loved ones to have the same emotional overreactiveness that we are feeling as being a sign of their love for us?

It is part of the illusion of our time -- the deep, hypnotic illusion that we live under
-- that to care for anything is to be obsessed.
We know ourselves that we have moments of very deep caring
that are very quiet and calm but full of love.
We have not been helped to realize that obsessive desire or craving is not
really care for another person. It's more neurotic* based on our own ego.
*(mental disorder characterized by depression, anxiety)

That obsessive craving is something that's definitely fueled by our society.

Absolutely.
And also in the way that our stories and movies portray people who care for anything
--they are always obsessed by it.
If you are working in an office and you really care about your job and
you're doing it calmly and quietly,
your boss is going to say, "What's wrong with you? You don't care about your work!"
You have to pretend to be like that to show that you really care!

-Jacob Needleman is professor of philosophy at San Francisco State

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