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Who is Tom Bombadil?
"We are told a startling fact about the Music of the Ainur and water in The Silmarillion, “And it is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance else that is in the Earth” and that the elves are drawn to the sea by this echo of the Music. Much in the same way we find Tom absolutely ( Read more... ) -
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
~Robert A. Heinlein -
Scarlet Letter
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create a sunshine, filling the heart so full of radiance, that it overflows upon the outward world. -
Subconscious Beginnings
"She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken."
- Ayn Rand -
Not secondhand...
'I’ve been used. I’ve been hurt. I’ve been played and rejected and ignored and toyed with and runner-up’d and shattered and glued back together and shattered again. So many times it’s embarrassing. But I am not secondhand. I still love “like new,” because I have bright hope in good things to come.' ~The Dalai Llama (not The Dalai Lama) -
Betrayal
Betrayal at any stage of the socio-developmental cycle results in extreme biopsychosocial distress far beyond the event itself. It disrupts the person’s established mental model by which he or she views, understands, and responds to his or her environment and life events, destabilizes the co-occurring psychological contracts by which one trusts, ( Read more... ) -
Grace
"I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace." ~Mohandas Gandhi -
virtually
and he leadeth them by the neck with a flaxen cord -
veiled for your pleasure
Eat, drink, and be merry... -
Shadows
A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.