Wisdom Commons - Exploring, Elevating and Celebrating Our Shared Moral Core
  • Sign Up
  • |
  • Log In
  • home
  • what's here
  • virtues list
  • member pages
  • add content
  • parenting tips
  • store

The beginning of love is to...

    • Currently 4.0/5 Stars.
  • Add to My Wisdom Page
  • Share with a friend
  • Print a poster
  • Share this wisbit on Facebook
Acceptance - Wonder - Love - Objectivity - Patience
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
  • Author: Thomas Merton, Trappist monk [Roman Catholic]
  • Contributor: billye22
  • Christianity
  • North America
  • Source
  • Permalink

Source (click to close)

Source type: Book
No Man Is An Island
http://www.amazon.com/No-Man-Island-Thomas-Merton/dp/0156027739
Contribution #6782


  • Add to My Wisdom Page
  • Share with a friend
  • Print a poster
  • Share this wisbit on Facebook

See related quotes, proverbs, poetry, folktales, and essays about: Acceptance - Wonder - Love - Objectivity - Patience

Comments

Log in or Sign up to comment.
  • About
  • Help
  • Feedback
  • Related Sites
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Privacy Policy
  • © 2013 Wisdom Commons