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Freud's cure through love did not mean any happy result that might spring from the love of a therapist for his patient. Quite the reverse....The cure through love...depends upon the therapist's finding in the patient a quality that can be admired, hoped, or wished for. It is the 'recognition of a promise.'

Simile

How does a simile work?

— Place something next to something

and say, here . (The here is where

the somethings touch.) The rainy

night, like Debussy.

There on the shelf, a piece

of grapevine in a blue

vase. The world is so much

like itself it can be hard to see.

Tomorrow I will try again

to understand: what is a simile?

All night, all day: the rain

come... See more

On those who find themselves having others “utter all kinds of evil” against them on account of Jesus or who suffer for carrying the name “Christian,” Jesus is not talking about the so-called war on Christmas, what decorations appear on the winter-season coffee cup, or whether the mall rings with sounds of “Happy holidays” rather than “Merry... See more

I can hear Jesus saying, “Get your hands dirty to build a human society for human beings.” Christianity is not passive but active, energetic, alive, going beyond despair.

It is neither wealth nor poverty that keeps people out of the kingdom— it is pride .

Jesus taught an alternative wisdom that shakes the social order instead of upholding the conventional wisdom that maintains it.