Being In Love 81/200

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20/11/2024

"A total hate is also beautiful, as beautiful as total love; a total anger is also beautiful, as beautiful as total compassion (lòng trắc ẩn). The beauty is in totality. Anger alone becomes ugly, hate alone becomes ugly—it is just the valley without the hill, without the peak. But with the peak the valley becomes a beautiful scene. From the peak the valley becomes lovely, from the valley the peak becomes lovely. 

 You move; your life river moves between these two banks. And, by and by (dần dần), the more and more you understand the mathematics of life, you won’t think that hate is against love. It is complementary (sự bổ trợ). You won’t think that anger is against compassion; it is complementary. Then you don’t think that rest is against work, it is complementary; or that night is against day; it is complementary. They make a perfect whole.

Because you have not loved, you are afraid of hate. You are afraid because your love is not strong enough. Hate could destroy it. You are not certain, really, whether you love or not; that’s why you are afraid of hate and anger. You know that it may completely shatter the whole house. You are not certain whether the house really exists or is just imagination, an imaginary house.

If it is imagination the hate will destroy it; if it is real the hate will make it stronger. After the storm a silence descends. After hate, lovers are again fresh to fall into each other completely fresh, as if they are meeting for the first time again. Again and again they meet, again and again for the first time.

 Hate does not destroy love, it only destroys the staleness ((/ˈsteɪlnəs/) sự nhàm chán, cũ kĩ) of it.