Monday, March 31, 2008

John D. Caputo on "the gift"...

"The gift, if there is such a thing, is the event, the impossible, the undeconstructible. The gift is what we love and desire with a desire beyond desire, in which we hope with a hope against hope...

Love is its own 'why'; love is for its own sake. It does not demand a further or external reason...

There is, there ought to be, something that we do in life that is not for a return but just because what we are doing is life itself, something a little mad. That is the gift."

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