Status Updates From Keturios meilės

The segments on Friendship and Eros were insightful. The takeaway from Friendship is that it operates primarily by allowing the light of others to reveal more of your own traits through fixating on a shared idea or goal. The principal vice for friendship is pride.
Eros operates by devoting one’s self entirely and exclusively to another, with or without sexual desire. The danger of Eros isn’t lust, but obsession.

I’ve been saying for months “this book is a little slow” but as it turns out I just needed a pen for underlining

“We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armor. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it” dang