Age 16 and 60: 2 Seasons of Love
| Age 16 - | Falling in love is a wondrous adventure and path to discovery. |
| Age 60 - | There's no need to fall in love to discover anything. In fact, love is a form of blindness preventing clear sight. If you really want to discover someone, be a neutral observer - Emotion reduces the capacity to discriminate fully. |
| Age 16 - | Each chance for love should be accepted since people are rich though love. |
| Age 60 - | There's no need for any formal relationship to love. Formal relations involve a lot of time, energy, and responsibility. Since those resources are limited, it's better to simply finish off the relations you have than to bring new dramas to the stage. |
| Age 16 - | When you love others, you can show them who you really are. |
| Age 60 - | Frankly speaking, people do not want to see who you are - They're more interested in what you can do for them. Also, often the best way to help others is to be invisible: get out of the way so people can focus on learning their core lessons. |
| Age 16 - | Physical intimacy is a blissful, tender expression of love. |
| Age 60 - | Love is connected with sex tenuously at best. It's possible to experience deep love without sex, and physical intimacy without love. The real question involves energy focus: is it better to heed sensual longings or foster contentment? |
| Age 16 - | Spontaneity is a virtue. Desire should be neither invited nor spurned, but accepted as a natural process as it arises. |
| Age 60 - | Restraint is a virtue. Most desires are never satisfied - only briefly sated. Attending to old desires is not only exhausting, but boring. If you can't learn anything new from old patterns, why continue them? People don't grow by clinging to the past, but by exploring new fields. |
