Here, under the pine-tree, we begin to sense that the love potion demands too much. It takes too much away. Unless we make it conscious, unless we put it on the correct level, it absolutely possesses us and dominates us from the depths; it dissolves our human lives, relationships, and commitments; it leaves nothing in their place. The world it opens to us is rare and wonderful; it is a part of ourselves we long have needed to rediscover and touch. But as with every powerful new truth emerging from the unconscious, the love potion finds its way into places it does not belong, destroys things
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