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marita
4:31 PM
Thursday, May 05, 2005
Maggie said, ‘The real tie lies in the feelings and expectations we have raised in other minds. Else all pledges might be broken, when there was no outward penalty. There would be no such thing as faithfulnessLife is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feeling; - but then, such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us - the ties that have made others dependent on us - and would cut them in two. If life were quite easy and simple, if life did not make duties for us before love comes - love would be a sign that two people ought to belong to each other. But I see - I feel it is not so now: there are things we must renounce in life. Many things are difficult and dark to me - but I see one thing quite clearly - that I must not, cannot seek my own happiness by sacrificing others. Love is natural - but surely, faithfulness and memory are too. And they would live in me still, and punish me if I didn’t obey them. I should be haunted by the suffering that I had caused. Our love would be poisoned.‘If we acted with the thinking that the feeling which draws us towards each other is too strong to be overcome, that natural law surmounts every other and we can’t help what it clashes with, there would be a warrant for all treachery and cruelty - we should justify breaking the most sacred ties that can ever be formed on earth. If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.‘Maggie did not answer immediately. ‘That seems right - at first - but when I look further, I’m sure it is not right. Faithfulness and constancy mean something else besides doing what is easiest and pleasantest to ourselves. They mean renouncing whatever is opposed to the reliance others have in us - whatever would cause misery to those whom the course of our lives have made dependent on us. I have never said, “They shall suffer, that I may have joy.”‘Stephen burst out, ‘You don’t love me - if you had the tithe of the feeling for me that I have for you, - it would be impossible for you to think for a moment of sacrificing me. But it weighs nothing with you that you are robbing me of my life’s happiness.’Maggie replied, ‘No - I don’t sacrifice you - I couldn’t sacrifice you. But I can’t believe in a good for you, that I feel - that we both feel is a wrong towards others. We can’t choose happiness either for ourselves or for another - we can’t tell where that will lie. We can only choose whether we will indulge ourselves in the present moment or whether we will renounce that for the sake of obeying the divine voice within us - for the sake of being true to all the motives that sanctify our lives. I know that belief is hard - it has slipped from me again and again; but I have felt that if I let it go for ever, I should have no light through the darkness of this life.-courtesy of adrianloo.comThankful because I came across this... I would have forgotten.
