ADMIRATION

"To admire existence, to find interest, pleasant interest or pleasant excitement in life itself, is motion and action. To be able to respect and admire livingness in a thing rather than to trap and cage that livingness for possession.

That would be the difference between love and admiration.

A thing to be love has to be trapped and caged, and a thing which is admired is a thing which you like to set free.

there's all difference in the world then between a top scale emotion like admiration and a bottom scale of emotion like love. Love is down there with hate so close to it that they flip like a gambler's card.

Passionate devotion, very very passionate devotion, when it does not include observation is love. Devotion where it does include observation would be admiration."

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