You Don’t know what Real Love is | Alan Watts

well now really when we go back then to
falling in love and say it’s crazy
falling you see we don’t say rising in
to love there is in it the idea of the
fall and it is goes back as a matter of
fact two 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 the 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
flaw is not going to give under your
feet the moment you take a journey what
an act of faith the moment 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 away with 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 gonna watch the
guards so
actually therefore the 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