Beginning of Love

"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

​"愛一個人的開始，應鼓勵對方表現最真實一面，而不是扭曲對方來迎合自己的幻想。如根本不愛對方的本性，而愛潛在喜歡的可能性，那麼就是說你愛的不是這個人：而是對方身上反射出來那自己的倒影" --湯瑪斯.莫頓