It is because we won’t consciously give a place to spiritual aspiration in our modern lives. It is out of fashion, we don’t understand what it is, and we won’t admit to it. We aren’t consciously interested in wholeness—only in production, control, and power; we don’t believe in the spirit—only in what is physical and sexual. But our urge toward the soul finds its way involuntarily into the one place we would never look for it—into the projections, the ideals, the ecstasies and despairs, the passions and strivings, of romantic love. For lack of any other channel, any other form in which it
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