'I want to break out - to leave this cycle of infection and death. I want to be taken in love: so taken that you and I, and death, and life, will be gathered inseparable, into the radiance of what we would become.... '
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker desires to break free from cycles of suffering, seeking love that unites life and death into a radiant future.
- In plain terms
- Wanting to escape suffering through love that unites life and death.
- What can you take from it?
- Love can transform the relationship between life and death.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What does it mean to love both life and death?
Another view
Highly abstract; may be hard to operationalize.
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