Little Prince and Love: Part Two: Marc Gafni

The little prince intuitively understands that love is about Eros.
He also knows deep down that someday he must return to his rose. He does not now when or how so he says to the fox, “I will tame you but know that someday I will have to go away and that will hurt.”

But the fox says, “I want to be your lover even if it hurts.” And somewhere deep inside the boy begins to understand that in the sweet surrender of love there is a commitment that sometimes it hurts and that’s okay.

He begins to know that without commitment you cannot fully see your beloved; be they fox or rose. Perhaps the fox whispers to him some of the magical dance of Hebrew language. In Hebrew, the words for love and obligation — chovah and chibbah — are virtually the same word, derived from the same Semitic root. It is obligation and commitment which opens the window of the soul, which enables the love’s perception.

When it is time to leave, the fox cries and leaves the boy with the parting wisdom of love. Whispers the fox; Love is perception. “Love is to stutter in wonderment at the utter beauty of the beloved”. Now this beauty was always there. Love Is. But you never noticed. To love is to notice what is.

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