I am a person without any outstanding traits. That is why I cannot build a love relationship with anyone. I cannot embark on love without collateral. This is a typical inferiority-complex way of thinking, because one is using one’s feelings of inferiority as an excuse for not resolving one’s tasks. YOUTH: But, but . . . PHILOSOPHER: One separates the tasks. Loving is your task. But how will the other person respond to your love? That is the other person’s task and is not something you can control. What you can do is separate the tasks, and just love first, from yourself. That is all.
