Brandon Vernon

What do lovers see? Lovers don’t see form, shape, pleasure, desire. Not really. Those are manifestations, expressions, perceptions, feelings. They are not what is seen. When you there is someone before that you love, as naked as the spring, what do you really see? You see everything in them. Not everything that they are — everything that is.

So what is it in you that loves? Nothing else in you is capable of it. Not your mind, not your thoughts, not your perceptions, not your senses, not reason, belief, calculation, desire, instinct. Nothing. Just your soul. No soul, no love. No love, no meaning, purpose, happiness. So in this way all the things that really matter to you come straight from your soul. Fight it if you want, but it will only make you more and more unhappy.