And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and secretly replaced it with another world while everyone slept. You felt in such complete harmony with God, when every morning you asked him for a new earth, so that all the ones he had made could have their turn. You thought it would be shabby to save them and repair them; you used them up and held out your hands, again and again, for more world. For your love was equal to everything.

Summary

This quote illustrates the boundless, consuming nature of love. The speaker suggests that their love is so intense and transformative that it has the power to set the entire world ablaze and create new worlds in its wake. They explain that they are constantly seeking new experiences, new connections, and new opportunities to pour their love into. They believe it is their duty to use up and replace the existing world in order to give it a chance to be loved by someone else, demonstrating a profound sense of harmony with a higher power and an unrelenting capacity for love.

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