Showing posts with label Thomas Merton. Show all posts
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Thursday, July 25, 2013

I love you... or do I love me?

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“The beginning of love 
is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, 
the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. 
If in loving them 
we do not love what they are, 
but only their potential likeness to ourselves, 
then we do not love them: 
we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them” 
― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

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