Love is the perception of perfection beyond the protection of our projection.
The more we look at anything, the more we see ourselves in the thing. This is called projection. There__ an ethics to projection, an unhinged sense of honesty. Honesty is complicated. The truth is fascinatingly flexible. Lying is boundless. It knows no limits. People lie all the time. Lying is an instinct. It__ human nature. We lie to each other; we lie to ourselves. It isn__ right, but we do.
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The more we look at anything, the more we see ourselves in the thing. This is called projection. There__ an ethics to projection, an unhinged sense of honesty. Honesty is complicated. The truth is fascinatingly flexible. Lying is boundless. It knows no limits. People lie all the time. Lying is an instinct. It__ human nature. We lie to each other; we lie to ourselves. It isn__ right, but we do.
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