“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
tags: friendship, love, self-discovery, trust, truth
机器翻译,仅供参考:
“爱的开始是让我们爱的人成为完美自己的意愿,是不扭曲他们以符合我们自己形象的决心。如果在爱他们的过程中,我们不爱他们的本来面目,而只爱他们与我们潜在的相似之处,那么我们就不爱他们:我们只爱我们在他们身上看到的自己的影子。”
―托马斯·默顿,没有人是孤岛
标签:友谊,爱,自我发现,信任,真理