“What you most fall in love with in the beginning stages of a romance is the projection of your own soul that you have cast onto the other person.

In order for love to survive past this stage, you have to withdraw that projection and learn how to love the person for the ordinary, mortal, flawed, human they are.

Often, when the romantic phase fades (as it inevitably will), people believe that they have fallen “out of love” with that person, but really they have fallen “out of a projection.”

You expected someone outside of you to live your soul life for you, to give your life ultimate meaning; but really that task was a journey you needed to take within the depths of your being all along.”

-Laura Matsue

Episode 173 – Why We Put People on Pedestals: The Golden Shadow

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