while my demons stay faithful, in the city of angels
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Well now really when we go back into falling in love. And say, it’s crazy. Falling. You see? We don’t say “rising into love”. There is in it, the idea of the fall.
And it goes back, as a matter of fact, to extremely fundamental things.
That there is always a curious tie at some point between the fall and
the creation. Taking this ghastly risk is the condition of there being
life. You see, for all life is an act of faith and an act of gamble.
The moment you take a step, you do so on an act of faith because you
don’t really know that the floor’s not going to give under your feet.
The moment you take a journey, what an act of faith. The moment that you
enter into any kind of human undertaking in relationship, what an act
of faith. See, you’ve given yourself up. But this is the most powerful thing that can be done: surrender. See. And love is an act of surrender to another person.
Total abandonment. I give myself to you. Take me. Do anything you like
with me. See. So, that’s quite mad because you see, it’s letting things
get out of control. All sensible people keep things in control. Watch
it, watch it, watch it. Security? Vigilance Watch it. Police? Watch it.
Guards? Watch it. Who’s going to watch the guards? So,
actually, therefore, the course of wisdom, what is really sensible, is
to let go, is to commit oneself, to give oneself up and that’s quite
mad. So we come to the strange conclusion that in madness lies sanity.
