Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes
People Are Like That Here. Strangers Smile At You On The Beach, Come Up And Offer You A Shell, For No Reason, Lightly, And Then Go By And Leave You Alone Again. Nothing Is Demanded Of You In Payment, No Social Rite Expected, No Tie Established. It Was A Gift, Freely Offered, Freely Taken, In Mutual Trust. People Smile At You Here, Like Children, Sure That You Will Not Rebuff Them, That You Will Smile Back. And You Do, Because You Know It Will Involve Nothing. The Smile, The Act, The Relationship Is Hung In Space, In The Immediacy And Purity Of The Present; Suspended On The Still Point Of Here And Now; Balanced There, On A Shaft Of Air, Like A Seagull.
The Pure Relationship, How Beautiful It Is! How Easily It Is Damaged, Or Weighed Down With Irrelevancies - Not Even Irrelevancies, Just Life Itself, The Accumulations Of Life And Of Time. For The First Part Of Every Relationship Is Pure, Whether It Be With Friend Or Lover, Husband Or Child. It Is Pure, Simple And Unencumbered.
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