“ Maha: But if you really love him, doesn’t that make it all right? Magistra Isadau: I have...

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Maha: But if you really love him, doesn’t that make it all right?

Magistra Isadau: I have loved many, many people and I’ve never meant the same thing by the word twice. Love is wonderful, but it doesn’t justify anything or make a bad choice wise. Everyone loves. Idiots love. Murderers love. Pick any atrocity you want, and someone will be able to justify it out of something they call love. Anything can wear love like a cloak.

M: I don’t understand. What does that mean?

MI: Love isn’t a word that means one thing. Someone may love their country or their gods. An idea or a vision of the world. Or because it can mean so many things, it’s possible to call something love that’s nothing to do with it. Love is noble and so we wrap it around all the things we think perhaps aren’t so noble in hopes no one will see what they really are. Fear. Anger. Shame. I’m not telling you what decision you should make. God knows you have enough people to do that for you. But I am reminding you… Longing isn’t love. Not any more than fear is.

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