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Feb 2020
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43 - What Does It Mean to Love

Anthony De Mello/The DeMello Spirituality Center
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What does it mean to love? It means to be sensitive to life, to things, to persons, to feel for everything and everyone to the exclusion of nothing and no one. For exclusion can only be achieved through a hardening of oneself, through closing one's doors. And the moment there is a hardening, sensitivity dies. 
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