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“To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love”
The more you can accept and understand yourself, the more you can accept and understand another person. If your ability to accept yourself is limited, your ability to offer understanding and tolerance toward another person will also be limited. You might choose to respond to anger with anger; an eye for an eye. Kevin Kelly said ‘whenever you have a choice between being right or being kind, be kind. No exceptions. Don’t confuse kindness with weakness’. But our capacity to make this compassionate choice is only as wide and as big as our capacity to know and inhabit and put our arms around our own complicated multiplicity.