It introduces the idea that the acceptance of the experience of love, ofthe experience of the other, of the gaze raised towards the other, contributes to this supreme love that is both the love we owe to God and the love that God brings to us. And, of course, that is a stroke of genius! Christianity has managed to capture on behalf of its Church –

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The first is to love. This takes real courage, and ultimately surrender, to know our capacity for love - and we can only know this by loving another, by loving every detail in the natural world, knowing it as love, as from love. Love is the most resonant and beautiful interface between all being, it is an active state of communion, of giving and re