Love (excerpt)
Emerson
1． Love is a natural combination of water-like tenderness and fiery desire, and this combination puts forward the following requirements to people: In order to depict the love experience of young boys and girls with brilliant colors, a person cannot be too old. The wonderful reverie of youth does not allow for the slightest thoughtful calmness, for the latter will freeze their flower-like years with the pedantry of old age. As a result, I knew that I might be guilty, and that the members of the "Court of Love and Parliament" would think that I was too cold and indifferent. But I want to avoid these terrible nitpicking guys and turn to people who are older than me. It can be argued that although the passion we have discussed originated in adolescence, it is not abandoned in old age. Or, in other words, it will never make the loyal servants become old-fashioned, but it will let the elderly also share the sweetness of love, and they will not lose to the young girls, but in a different way, and the realm is even more elegant.
2． Love is a flame that has just melted into the last ember in the depths of one heart, and has been rekindled by the wandering Mars of another heart. It is fiery and fierce, until the flames warm and illuminate the hearts of millions of men and women and all mankind, and thus illuminate the whole world and nature. So, it doesn't matter whether we try to portray passion at the age of twenty, thirty, or eighty.
3． What is it that people most want to know about any well-known person? Nothing more than the affairs in his love history. What books are circulating in the library? When we read those romantic romance novels, how intoxicated we are! What could be more compelling in everyday life interactions than a passage of mutual affection? Maybe we have never met them in the future, but when we see them sending each other autumn waves or emotional pulses, we will no longer feel strange to each other. We understand them and have great enthusiasm for the progress of this romance. Everyone in the world loves lovers.
4． Here's a strange fact: Many people, when they relive their life experiences, seem to feel that the best page in the annals of their lives is the sweet memories of a love affair. There, some accidental, trivial events are endowed by love with a magical charm that exceeds the profound attraction of love itself. Looking back, they may find that a few things that were not originally attractive are more real to the memory of the quest than the magic of remembering them. However, no matter what our specific experiences are, no one can forget the impact of that force on our hearts. Its presence renews all things; it is the dawn of music, poetry, and art in a human body; it makes nature radiant, it transforms morning and evening, and it presents infinite charm. At that time, the sound of a voice will make his heart beat wildly, and the most trivial things related to a figure will become amber deeply embedded in memory.
5． In the prime and twilight of life, whenever we look back on the past, we still can't help but be moved, because at that time we have not yet enjoyed the joy, and must have been anesthetized by the taste of pain and fear. Someone once commented on love: All other joys cannot be worth its pain.
It's really a deep taste. At that time, the days were too short, so that the night was also consumed in the cone's memories; at that time, the moonlight was a joyful frenzy, the stars were words, the flowers were codes, and the breeze was composed into music; at that time, everything seemed to be missing the point, and all the men and women who were upside down on the street were just illusions.
6． Passion for young people to rebuild the world. It makes everything come alive and means timeless. Even nature is conscious. Now, every bird on the branch was singing to his heart, and a voice note was clear and clear. He looked up at the sky and saw that the clouds had also blossomed into smiling faces.
The passion that inspired him to love nature also made him fall in love with music and poetry. It is a common fact that many beautiful poems have been created under the inspiration of the passion of love, which cannot be done under any other conditions.
7． Love can fill his nature with strength, love can extend emotions, love can make vulgar people become elegant, and timid people become brave. In order to get a loved one, even a poor and despicable person will have the courage and ambition to conquer the world. While love has given him to another person, it is more about giving him to himself. Now he is a whole new man, with new feelings and new, more urgent intentions, and his character and purpose have acquired a piousness and solemnity.
8． There's a saying that goes, "If I love you, what does that mean to you?" We say this because we feel that our love is not in your will, but above your will. It is not you, but your brilliance. It's in you, and yet you don't realize it, and you never know it.
Therefore, God sends the aura of youth to the front of the soul, so that it can use the beautiful flesh as a refuge for its own memories of the good things in heaven. So, when a man sees it in a woman, he runs toward her. In contemplating the figure, movements, and wisdom of this person, he finds great joy, because it shows him the existence of things that truly reside in beauty, and the causes of beauty.
9． By communicating with things that in themselves represent superiority, nobility, humility, and justice, lovers will give more love and understanding to these things. Thus he extended from loving the kind of things that a person has to loving all things that he has. Therefore, a beautiful soul is only a door through which he passes through and enters the world of all innocent souls. In the world where his partner lived, he would see any spots, any stains, more clearly. What made him and she happy together was that they were both able to point out each other's shortcomings and to help and comfort each other in overcoming the same kind of shortcomings. Because this divine beauty is seen in many souls, because in each soul the divine thing is separated from the stain it has stained from the world, the lovers step on the ladder of the transformed soul, climb to the supreme beauty, to the love and knowledge of divinity.
10． A man and a woman started with the secret sending of autumn waves, then offered each other courtesy, then enthusiastically like fire, vowed to the mountains, and finally married. Passion makes their spirit and flesh completely intertwined. If Romeo dies, he should turn into a small star to decorate the sky. Lovers like ear grinding, like the sea oath mountain alliance, like to compare their own thoughtfulness. When alone, they reminisce about each other's images and masturbate. Is the other person reading the same book that makes me very happy, feeling the same emotions? However, the fate of mankind falls on these young people. Danger, sorrow, pain, all came to them. Love prayed that it had made a covenant with the "eternal power" for the sake of this dear companion, and thus it was married. It gives a new value to everything in nature, it gilds every thread in the web of relationships with a golden glow, and it immerses the soul in a new, sweeter realm. However, this union remains a temporary state. Flowers, jewelry, poetry, and even home in another heart cannot satisfy the awe-inspiring soul that dwells in the flesh. Eventually, it will evoke itself, throwing off those ear-wrenchings, like throwing away a toy, and then putting on its armor in pursuit of more ambitious and universal goals.
11． We can't help but feel that love is nothing more than a tent for us to stay overnight. Sometimes, we are ruled by love, attracted to, and made our happiness dependent on another person. However, we will soon see the vitality of the mind,its dome shining golden by the everlasting light of all things, and the passionate love that sweeps over our hearts like a dark cloud will lose its definite character and become one with God for its own perfection. Beautiful and seductive love can attain eternal life only when it is replaced and enriched by the goodness, virtue and wisdom of a more beautiful and seductive soul.
(Translated by Chen Yue)