AOM Meditations: 090419

by Philip Gladstone

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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)