Love

RIC_9377-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

   Love is the extremely difficult
     realization that something other than
     oneself is real.

    Iris Murdoch

Infinite responsibility

RC1_0681, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

   Our being spreads out far beyond us, and mingles with the

   beings of others.  We live in other peoples’ thoughts, their

   plans, their dreams  . . .  we have an infinite responsibility.

    Iris Murdoch