Conscious Love
Insights from Mystical Christianity
Chapter One
Kierkegaard's Error
In September 1840, the budding philosopher Søren Kierkegaard
realized he had made a terrible mistake. It was one of the sort
many men make. Some manage to correct it in time; some do not.
It had to do with a proposal of marriage, and in this case at least, it
led to an extraordinarily romantic tale.
The great lovers of history and literature are usually characters
with dash, and their stories are highly dramatic, laced
with glamour, intrigue, and sometimes violence. But Kierkegaard
was a rather unromantic figure. The surviving pictures of him
are sketches, chiefly caricatures (he did not have his portrait
painted or his daguerreotype taken), but they show him as a small,
stoop-shouldered man with side whiskers and eyeglasses, which no
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