“Love is not love if it compelled by reason and driven by logic — love exists in spite of those things, not because of them.”

— Julia Cameron

Blessings (1998)
Context: Love is not love if it compelled by reason and driven by logic — love exists in spite of those things, not because of them. It is a emotion which needs no fuel to fire it or oxygen to feed it; if you have to look for the why, then stop looking; it was never there at all.

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