Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. If one could follow it to its psychological roots, one would, I believe, find that the main motive for 'non-attachment' is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.
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He who does not love is miserable, and miserable is he who does.
Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
L'amour ressemblait fort a une torture ou a une operation chirurgicale.