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What Does David Brooks Say Is Both an Art and a Fortunate Accident?
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On TED Talks Daily, David Brooks quotes an old man in Louis de Bernières's novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin, speaking to his daughter about a late wife. Love itself, the line says, is whatever is left when being in love has burned away, and that remaining love is both an art and a fortunate accident. The couple's roots grew toward each other underground, and when the blossoms were gone they found they were one tree, not two. Brooks says that is what the heart yearns for. He sets the quote after Paul Tillich on suffering, which he says cuts through the floor of the soul and shows a depth that only spiritual and relational life can fill.
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