It is not the ability to read books that I am after. I can read these titles myself. Nor is it the ability to solve the most complex math problems, because perhaps I can do that myself as well.
No, it is that you should be capable of love, that means overcoming your vanity, and mine. It is that you understand, the way that I try to, the complexity of the person, the mystery that envelopes the human mind. It is that we know the challenge of trying to communicate what is of the self to the other - to extend the possibility of being one.
No, it is not your intelligence I should be after, but a certain largeness of mind. Large enough to admit, we may never fully understand.
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