te amo

Thought for the day,
I picked this idea up from Eckhart Tolle in his widely read book, A New Earth.

He is talking about true love, unconditional love, and the understanding that this love which we all yearn for really contains no idea of want on the part of the lover.  Needs no reciprocation. 

And he says in Spanish they use two expressions to say I love you, te quiero which means I want you, I love you and te amo which just means I love you with no need or want implied.  

Of course the more common usage is te quiero.   te amo is much rarer.  

I immediately called my daughter, Rosie, who happens to be a brilliant linguist ( spanish is her language) and poet and asked her what she thought.

“hmm.” She said “very interesting. That’s true. I suppose that is exactly how I would differentiate between the two.”

So this expression has been rolling along with me for weeks now. How many times can I honestly say te amo? And how wonderful and free things are every time I can say that with absolute truth.

Loverly.

These photos are from a day that Rosie and I were exploring the idea of fairies living in the city.

Te amo , Ro

Xx
Your mama