Love springs from awareness. It is only inasmuch as you see someone as he or she really is here and now, and not as they are in your memory or your d… - Anthony de Mello

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Love springs from awareness. It is only inasmuch as you see someone as he or she really is here and now, and not as they are in your memory or your desire or in your imagination or projection, that you can truly love them. Otherwise, it is not the person that you love but the idea that you have formed of this person, or this person as the object of your desire, not as he or she is in themselves.