@thewritertype Thank you, Paul. Metaphysically stated, I might add that "the suffering of this love is the most fruitful and most liberating power", the supernatural locus of a creative experience in which the divided self returns the entire world, as and through us, to an essential wholeness.
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Copy of two tweets, pasted together. Wendell Berry Jul15, 2018 Love someone who does not deserve it. sssfCommunity Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. (Joseph Joubert)
@sssfCommunity The world-changing teleology of His second great precept: perfecting God in the perfection of loving Another. Gibran: “When you enjoy loving your neighbor it ceases to be a virtue.” Bourgeault: "Salvation is measured by the capacity to love your neighbor as yourself."
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Tweets, copied. Apart from central, and more obviously theological, doctrines like the Trinity or the Incarnation, what contributed the most to convincing me of the truth of Christianity was the injunction to love one's enemies. It is perhaps the one aspect of Christian ethics which strikes... Sarugiz of Bokaj · me as unequivocally supernatural, and has contributed, perhaps more than any other ethical consideration, to my embrace of universalism. A Christianity in which this isn't absolutely central sometimes seems to me almost like another religion.