https://shorette.com/seeds/t/love/Seeds tagged #love.en-usMon, 28 Sep 2026 03:38:00 -0500https://shorette.com/seeds/n021/https://shorette.com/seeds/n021/Mon, 28 Sep 2026 03:38:00 -0500lovephilosophy <p>Some people take up so little of your time, even when you wish they would take more. Yet somehow, they take up so much of your mind. And that&rsquo;s far more precious a resource.</p> <p>Cut them out then? Maybe. I&rsquo;m not sure I&rsquo;m in the right state of mind to decide.</p>https://shorette.com/seeds/n018/https://shorette.com/seeds/n018/Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:41:00 -0500lovephilosophy <p>It seems like plenty of great thinkers have arrived at the same paradoxical conclusion that the capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. I think this makes sense when you take a little time to analyze it: if you need the other person, you are turning the other person into a possession/resource. If you are “full” independently, then that turns love into a gift. You can grant the other absolute freedom because whether they stay or leave does not affect your core. I will not cite the exact hadith, but the Prophet made it clear that true riches is self-contentment. What you don&rsquo;t receive from the other, the other cannot take. Two solitudes protect, touch and greet each other.</p> <p>Leads to <a href="https://shorette.com/seeds/n012/">Rilke on patience</a>, <a href="https://shorette.com/books/#book-letters-to-a-young-poet">Letters to a Young Poet</a>.</p>