Detachment, disinterest, and benevolence

Detachment, for me, means detaching from the world and everything in it as the source of good, the supplier of resources, the locus of my objectives, and accommodating everything under God.

I become disinterested in the world and everything in it: I no longer have a dog in the race.

Then, I can enjoy the race, whichever dog wins.

Benevolence is predicated on disinterest.

Personal interest is blinding and precludes benevolence: I cannot wish well what I cannot see.

If you're an instrument, a tool, a delivery system, a pot of resource, a pantry, a larder, a hoard, a seam to be mined, I cannot wish you well. I want to use you.

When some people have said _I love you_ they have meant _you have something I want_.

That's not love. That's acquisition. I'm then the target of a hostile takeover.

I can only properly be loved by someone who does not need me, and vice versa.