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Abstraction · 61-69, M
Yeah, I hear you.
But... so that we would learn to be deeper people. Shallow people - plenty of those around - respond to shallow things. They want the trophy wife or husband or car or house or job and look to definition of their shallow identity through symbols.
When we 'fall' out of love for a person, it's usually about what's inside them.
Beauty and the beast is a story about what is truly beautiful. What really matters. People who can dig beneath the surface have deeper souls and deeper lives. When a man falls in love with a woman, he falls in love with everything she is.
But... so that we would learn to be deeper people. Shallow people - plenty of those around - respond to shallow things. They want the trophy wife or husband or car or house or job and look to definition of their shallow identity through symbols.
When we 'fall' out of love for a person, it's usually about what's inside them.
Beauty and the beast is a story about what is truly beautiful. What really matters. People who can dig beneath the surface have deeper souls and deeper lives. When a man falls in love with a woman, he falls in love with everything she is.